Booker T. Washington

Virginia legislature repealed laws consenting to the admission of Berkeley and Jefferson counties to West Virginia

Storer College in Harpers Ferry, begun by the Freewill Baptist Church, to educate black teachers

Ratification of 13th Amendment by West Virginia

John Appleton moved to Kanawha County

13 Banks had become national banks

The Baptist General Association of West Virginia (West Virginia Baptist Convention) formed

Rosser's Raid occurred on Beverly

Belle Boyd wrote Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison in London

Waitman T. Willey senate term as first West Virginia senator ended

Provision included in Constitution of 1851 calling for the General Assembly to reapportion representation in both houses

John Dickinson came to Kanawha County

Anne Dudley arrived in West Virginia to teach freed blacks

Fairmont State University was formed as West Virginia's first private normal school

Aretas Fleming married Carrie M. Watson

Joseph Diss Debar appointed an agent in southern Germany

Nathan Goff married Laura E. Despard

Grafton National Cemetery was established for Civil War dead

The Easton Roller Mill replaced overshot water wheel

Reckart's Mill was built in Preston county

Visitor stated about Harpers Ferry, "all about the town are rubbish, filth, and stench."

Chester Hubbard began serving in the U.S. House of Representatives

John Jacob returned to Romney

George Latham served as congressman for the Second District of West Virginia

Joseph Lightburn returned to duty after being wounded in Sherman's advance on Atlanta

The Logan Wildcats were active in the Shenandoah Valley campaign

The city of Boone Court House changed its name to Madison

Two additional dams were built on the Monongahela River

The army recruiting and training center at Camp Carlisle ceased

The Campbell's Creek Coal Company began shipping coal down the Kanawha River from Port Amherst

Samuel Price was appointed circuit judge in Lewisburg but declined to take office

A narrow-gauge railroad was built to Ritchie Mines

Ritchie Mines was bought

Union authorities moved Jefferson County seat from Charles Town to Shepherdstown

The Wheeling interurban system began operation

The National Banking Act was amended to allow state banks to become national banks

Jim Vance was suspected in the murder of Harmon McCoy

The formal organizing of Webster County took place

The state superintendent called a state convention of teachers to meet in Fairmont, founding the West Virginia Education Association

Martinsville was officially renamed New Martinsville

McElhenney died as pastor of the Old Stone Presbyterian Church of Lewisburg.

Joseph McMurran became principal of Shepherd College

The French Creek Academy was established

Alexander Wade became the principle of Morgantown schools

Charles Ward arrived in Charleston from England

Lewis William Washington died

The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway was incorporated

William Wilson returned to Charles Town to practice law

The name of the Winchester Female Institute was changed to Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Johnson Camden and his partners quietly sold to Rockefeller's Standard Oil

Marmaduke Dent was admitted to the bar

Stephen Elkins married Hallie Davis Elkins

Aretas Fleming left the House of Delegates

Remains from the Foreman party were transferred to Mount Roase Cemetery

Oil was first struck in Glenville

The Grange had 20,000 lodges and 800,000 members in the country

The Lewisburg Academy reopened after closing during the Civil War

Courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

The Pennsboro & Harrisville Railroad was built

The House of Delegates impeached Treasurer John Burdett

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians started a division in Wheeling

The capital was moved from Charleston to Wheeling

Harriet Jones graduated from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay married Julia Ballintyne

Wheeling became known as the Nail City because of La Belle Ironworks

The legislature was required to met biennially

President Alexander Martin left WVU

A bill providing for better ventilation in the mines had been first introduced in legislature

The Morrow family moved to Pittsburgh

Johnson Newlon Camden joined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust

The Sentinel was founded as the Parkersburg Weekly Sentinel by Robert Hornor.

Reported 14 baptisms at St. John's Chapel

The first band sawmill began operation in West Virginia

Nathan Scott moved to Wheeling

Alexander Wade was elected Monongalia County school superintendent

Cassville was chartered

Ernest T. Weir was born

I.C. White earned a masters degree at WVU

Woodlawn Cemetery began as a private family burial ground

Thomas Anshutz painted Farmer and His Son Harvesting

Aaron and Samuel Bloch ran a small grocery and dry goods store in Wheeling and began producing chewing tobacco

Anne Dudley moved to New York to marry Rev. L. E. Bates

William Edwards published a three-volume work on butterflies, The Butterflies of North America

A log Catholic Church was erected in Summers County

Jacob Jackson was elected mayor of Parkersburg

James Kay returned to Quinnimont to construct coke ovens at Hawks Nest

The B&O Railroad connected Weston to Clarksburg

Virgil Lewis was admitted to the bar

William MacCorkle graduated from Washington and Lee University

James Miller graduated from Concord Normal School (Concord University)

William L. "Billy" Mitchell was born

Seventh-Day Adventist teachings first appeared in West Virginia in pamphlets

The U.S. Supreme court first used the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment in Strauder v. West Virginia

West Virginia's first telephone line was strung in Wheeling

William O. Trevey was born in Virginia

Oscar Nelson was born

A disastrous fire occurred in Volcano

Romeo Freer moved to Ritchie County and married for the third time