John George Jackson

There were about 16 churches in present West Virginia

The Greenbrier Association of Baptists established

John Beckley wrote a Jefferson campaign biography

Ephraim and Anna Musick Hatfield moved their family from Russell County, Virginia to the Tug Valley

Jesse Hughes returned to West Virginia

The site of Jackson's Mill was first settled by Edward Jackson

Old State Road was opened to the Ohio River

Joseph Johnson traveled to Winchester, Virginia

George Gregg built a gristmill and sawmill on the Jug of Middle Island Creek

The Hatfields settled in Lincoln County

John Marshall was appointed secretary of state

The first whites settled in Mingo County as farmers

Newport was given a charter

Nicholas Harvey acquired the site of Red Sulpher Springs

John Bunnell built a cabin in Pennsboro

St. Albans was first settled as Coalsmouth

Sampson Sanders settled in Cabell County

Permanent settlement on the Tug Fork began

Henry Jolley established a ferry across the Ohio River at Sistersville

Union was established by General Assembly to be county seat for Monroe County

Fort Gay was the first permanent settlement in Wayne County

The West Fork River was declared a navigable public highway

Isaac Williams was authorized to operate a ferry to carry traffic to the Ohio Shore

Barney McGraw planted the first apple orchard in the Little Kanawha Valley

James Wood left office as governor of Virginia

Buckongahelas signed the Fort Wayne Treaty

Ferries operated across both Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers

Capt. Meriwether Lewis accepted Patrick Gass as a volunteer for expedition

The Old State Road underwent major repairs

Residents established the first school of Morgantown

Joseph Ruffner died

St. George's Chapel was abandoned due to the loss of endowments and property by the Anglican Church

First mentioned in Lewis Summers journals

Robert Clendenin died in Ohio

Henry Harvey graduated from University of Pennsylvania

Dr. John McElhenney moved to Lewisburg

Joseph and David Ruffner successfully drilled for brine and erected the first salt furnaces, the Salines

The Ruffner brothers built the first commercial furnace at the Great Buffalo Lick

The Committee on Missions of the Synod of Virginia sent John McElhenney as a Presbyterian evangelist in Greenbrier and Monroe counties

James Swan was imprisoned for debt in France

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin outline a national transportation plan

John Tyler became governor of Virginia

Lewis Wetzel died at Rosetta, near Natchez

Alexander Campbell migrated to America

Thomas Campbell drafted The Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington

Claude Crozet began serving Napoleons military in Germany and Holland

Samuel Jackson established Jackson's Ironworks at Ices Ferry

The Old State Road received legislative authorization to collect tolls for maintenance

The Union Baptist Church was founded in Milton

The Literary Fund was established by the General Assembly

The first settlers arrived in Roane County

Henry Ruffner began studies at Lewisburg Academy

John Haymond and Benjamin Wilson began a salt works at Bull Town on the Little Kanawha River

John D. Sutton settled at Granny's Creek, now Sutton

James Madison became president

Gen. Elisha Boyd built the Martinsburg mansion Boydsville

Sinnett Triplett first known white man to occupy present Clay County

The first gristmill in Gilmer County was built in Glenville

Wilson Cary Nicholas purchased Green Bottom and established an overseer slave plantation

The Greenbrier College for Women was founded as the Lewisburg Academy by Dr. John McElhenney

Industrial development, especially salt and iron, was stimulated by the War of 1812

The Ices Ferry Ironworks supplied iron for shot used in the Battle of New Orleans and shipped nails and plates for Admiral Perry's Lake Erie squadron

The first Western Virginia rolling mill was in operation at Ices Ferry Ironworks

John George Jackson emerged as one of the foremost businessmen of the upper Monongahela Valley

Joseph Johnson became captain of the Harrison Riflemen

Aaron Stockton settled at Kanawha Falls

The Kanawha Valley salt industry boomed

John Marshall led a 20 man survey party mapping the route across West Virginia between the James and Ohio Rivers

Hawks Nest was named Marshall's Pillars

Justice Joseph Story delivered the decision to reverse Virginia Court of Appeals in the David Hunter case after John Marshall recused himself from the case

Robert Gorrell laid out town lots at present Middlebourne

John Marshall boated the New River to asses its navigation potential

Organ Cave was mined for saltpeter to manufacture gunpowder

Spencer was first settled by the Samuel Tanner and Jonathan Wolfe families

Anne Royall moved to Charleston after death of Wm. Royall

Henry Ruffner attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)

John George Jackson began his salt works on the West Fork

Salt production quadrupled on 52 furnaces to reach one million bushels

Robert Simmons fought in the War of 1812

The "Big Cave" on Cave Mountain was a source of saltpeter for the production of gunpowder

Samuel Tanner and Jonathan Wolfe moved into a cave near present Spencer Middle School

Western Virginia militias took parts in the Northwest Campaign

Barboursville charted and named for governor James Barbour

Buffalo Creek Farmer's Library of Monongalia County was established

The first glass factory in Western Virginia was built at Wellsburg

Alexander Withers took over management of his mother's plantation

Swiss Immigrant David Boudon became an artist in Wheeling

Buckhannon was established

Western representatives called for a constitutional convention

Dr. James Putney was born in Malden

Capt. Henry Shreve constructed his steamboat Washington from the timbers of Fort Henry, Wheeling

The Staunton Convention failed to meet western demands

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

Noah Ludlow bought a 25-foot flatboat

The General Assembly passed an act to establish an Internal Improvement Fund and Board of Public Works

Charlestown became Wellsburg

Northwestern Bank of Virginia in Wheeling chartered

The Bank of the Valley in Virginia chartered in Winchester

Theodore Burr patented his system for covered bridges

The town Beauchamp's Mills was renamed for Elizabeth Woodland Beauchamp

Sistersville Ferry began operation from Sistersville to Fly, Ohio

Aaron Stockton bought the Glen Ferris Inn

Abner Vance fled a Russell County murder charge and took refuge in Tug Valley

Coal began being mined to fuel the salt works

Daniel Haymond settled at the head of the North Fork of the Hughes River

The Turnpike Act passed providing for financing and organization of canal and turnpike companies

The Staunton Turnpike was chartered by the General Assembly to end at Sistersville

The Monongahela Navigation Company began efforts to construct a slack water navigation system

Weston was founded

Gov. Cabell bought 4,400 acres of land inCabell County

Clarksburg chosen as site of first federal court west of Alleghenies

Romney's Literary Society was founded

The first steamboat tried to get up over Red House Shoals

Western commerce was crushed by the Panic

The Lewis County seat became Weston

Henry Ruffner organized two Presbyterian congregations from which came Kanawha Salines in Malden and the Kanawha Church of Charleston

Oil was produced by George Lemon in Wirt County

Jonas Smith recorded the first plat of the town

The Robert Thompson was the first steamboat to attempt to get to Charleston

The Literary Society was founded

Henry Ruffner began teaching ancient languages at Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

Richard Henry Lee Washington died

Thomas Beall died

Weston became the permanent name of the town