The Trough

Fairfax established an office to sell land

Washington surveying team noted one of the earliest schools in Moorefield area

Moravian missionary reported the amount of Germans in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties

Reported 200 people were living at Pearsall's Flats

Levi Shinn was born

Thomas Walker explored Virginia's New River Valley

Thomas Beall was born

Killbuck is credited with leading warriors into the Battle of the Trough

Battle of the Trough occurred near Moorefield.

Appalachian Power Company began

Daniel Willard became president of B&O

Mannington, Fairmont, Clarksburg, and Grafton baseball teams formed the Class D West Virginia League

Charleston entered professional baseball

Beckley population rose to 2,161

Bluefield's population exceeded 10,000

U.S. Supreme Court established boundary between Preston County, West Virginia and Garrett County, Maryland

Pearl Buck returned to the U.S. after living in China

Pine Run School was built

Annie G. Packette raised $50,000 to construct Charleston Opera House

Charleston Mail sold to Samuel Dixon

Men including John W. Davis published the Culpeper Exponent

U.S. Bureau of Mines created after the Fairmont disaster of 1907

West Virginia coke production peaked at 4,217,381 tons

Justus Collins opened Winding Gulf mine

Danske Dandridge wrote Historic Shepherdstown

Levi Dean began practicing architecture in Charleston

The first deer hunting season was established

West Virginia's approximate deer population was 1,000

Thurmond accounted for almost 20% of all revenue generated on C&O Railway

Isaac Morris sold Easton Roller Mill to William Ley

West Virginia schools had fallen behind national averages

West Virginia had only 12 fully accredited high schools

The Department of Education increased to five divisions

Golden era of glass production ended

Aretas Fleming pushed to establish the U.S. Bureau of Mines

A. B. Brooks compiled a report on West Virginia forests

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Number of farms in West Virginia stood at 97,000

Glass factory employment totaled 7,500 workers

The Meadow River Lumber Company was organized in Rainelle

The C&O purchased the Greenbrier Resort and developed it into a major destination

Rimfire Hamrick opened a jewelry, watch repair, and gunsmith shop in Webster Springs

The High Gate mansion was built for James Edwin Watson

Census reported 5,939 Hungarians in West Virginia

Census showed 17 Irish families and 82 person occupying Irish Mountain

Reported 17,000 Italian immigrants in West Virginia

McDowell County reported the most Italian immigrants in West Virginia with 2,300

City of Ranson was established

Reported most of the Kelly Axe Company's grinders were natives of Poland or Russia

Harley Kilgore graduated from Mannington High School

Sarah Ann Legg appealed her case for murder of Jay Legg and was acquitted of all charges

Lincoln County had a population of 20,491

Signs bearing "Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco, Treat yourself to the Best" began appearing

Akro Agate was founded in Ohio

Marlinton had a tannery, two banks, two newspapers, 20 stores, a hospital, opera house, fire department, school, water system, & electric power

Marlinton Opera House was built by J. C. Tilton

John Matheus graduated from Western Reserve University (Case Western Reserve) in Cleveland, Ohio

The original sawmill of the Meadow River Lumber Company was built

The McKendree and Welch hospitals opened affiliated nursing schools

Morgantown population rose to 9,150

Howard Sloan organized the first enduring work of the Church of the Nazarene in West Virginia

The New York Central gained control of the Toledo & Ohio Central

Niagara Movement failed to meet

The O. Ames company arrived in Parkersburg

37 of the state's 55 counties were completely dry or allowed the prohibition of the sale of liquor under local option laws.

The C&O and Virginian railroads had penetrated every section of Raleigh County

A factory making buttons from river mussel shell opened in St. Marys

Nathan Scott lost the Republican nomination

The Raine brothers established the Meadow River Lumber Company

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled that the Swan lands had been forfeited to the state because taxes had not been paid

Thurmond had a population of 315

Tucker County population peaked at 18,675

U.S. Coal & Coke built 12 individual company towns at Gary

The steamboat Virginia went aground on a falling Ohio River and ended up in a cornfield at Ravenswood

The Meyercord-Carter Company reorganized as the Vitrolite Company

The Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Railroad was incorporated

T. Edward Hill joined the McDowell Times

Ohio Valley Glass became Paul Wissmach Glass Company

The annual Civilian Conservation Corps reunion began at Camp Woodbine

Morris Harvey College became the University of Charleston

Senator Jay Rockefeller became the chairman of the President's Commission on Coal

James Stam became president of Salem College

Another Soupy Sales Show was offered syndication

Mary Lee Settle won the National Book Award for Fiction for Blood Tie

Frank Thomas wrote It Is This Way with Men Who Fly, a history of West Virginia aviation

The Nelson family sold the United Carbon Building

Cyrus Vance had a role in Camp David peace and the Panama Canal Treaty

The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey moved to the Mont Chateau Research Center from WVU

The first class of 33 students graduated from the School of Osteopathic Medicine

The region's first cardiac catheterization laboratory was opened at Wheeling Hospital

The "fetus protection policy" was instituted by the American Cyanamid's Willow Island Plant

Bob Wise became involved in community redevelopment from the Mingo County floods

4 to 8 inches of rain had fallen

The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history occurred when river rose more than nine feet above flood stage

The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history hit

Timber and Watershed Lab at Fernow Forest was severely damaged by the flood

Greenbrier River crested at 23.95 feet, more than nine feet above flood stage, killing 47 people

Record flooding occurred in central and eastern West Virginia, killing 47 people

High water reached 13 ft above flood stage at Glenville

Major flood caused great damage to Marlinton

There was a major flood in Parsons

Cheat River crested at 24.3 feet, more than eight feet above flood stage

Raging flood waters killed 16 people in Pendleton County

West Fork at Weston crested at 24.10 feet, more than seven feet above flood stage

The Philippi mummies were damaged in the flood and were treated by a local funeral home

WVMR was major in reporting during the great flood