Weirton Steel

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

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute

Cassville was chartered

I.C. White earned a masters degree at WVU

Woodlawn Cemetery began as a private family burial ground

Charles Ambler received an M.A. in social sciences

Waitman Barbe wrote The Study of Poetry

Company constructed a three-story wooden hotel near the spring at Barger Springs

Walter Barnes graduated from WVU

Jesse Bloch married Jessie Thornton Moffat

C&O absorbed the Hocking Valley Railroad

William Edwin Chilton and others bought Charleston's electric streetcar system

Oliver Chitwood received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins

Coal & Coke Railway reached Clay

Alston Dayton was appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Legislature created a four-member Board of Examiners to issue teaching certificates

Charles Town Academy ceased

Fenton Art Glass Company opened in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

The Frederick Hotel was built in downtown Huntington

William Glasscock was appointed internal revenue collector for the District of West Virginia by President Theodore Roosevelt

The C&O Greenbrier Division extension to Winterburn was completed

The original Grimes Golden apple tree blew down

Ella Holroyd entered the Cincinnati Conservatory

Earnest T. Weir purchased the Jackson Iron & Tin Company tin mill at Clarksburg

John Jay Jackson Jr. retired as judge

Tommy Benford was born in Charleston

Blanche Lazzell received an art degree from WVU

St. George Orthodox Church of Charleston was established

Howard B. Lee graduated from Marshall College (now University)

Sarah Ann Legg went on trial for murder of Jay Legg

Carnegie library was established in Parkersburg

Oil and gas business began in Griffithsville

The entire Little Kanawha River system was acquired by the federal government

The electric streetcar service arrived in Mannington

Martin Christensen invented the marble-making machine

Frank McEnteer graduated from Harvard Engineering School

Jim Sellers and J.W Grimm bought a brick-making machine

The West Virginia Department of Mines was created

Matewan opened its first hospital

Margaret Montague published The Poet, Miss Kate, and I

The West Virginia State Museum was founded

The B&O Beaux Arts-style station in Wheeling was built

John Nugent was elected president of the state Federation of Labor

Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company expanded operations by buying a sawmill on Cherry River at Coal Siding.

The Western Maryland Railroad arrived in Paw Paw

A commercial department was added to Potomac State College

The Virginian Railroad developed a shop and yards in Princeton.

Teddy Roosevelt walked Eleanor Roosevelt down the aisle to marry FDR

St. Joseph's Hospital opened a nursing school

The Pope Dock Company built Sunny South

The Morgan Museum began in Putnam County by Sidney Morgan

The Sunrise mansion was built by William MacCorkle

The West Virginia Archives and History was created by legislature

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg(h) became part of the Western Maryland Railway Company

The Historical Society ceased publication of The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly

The Historical Society collections were moved to the Capitol Annex

West Virginia Wesleyan College awarded its first five degrees

Albert White left office as governor

The Elk River Coal & Lumber Company organized

Timber in the Williams River watershed began being taken out by log train

Williamson was incorporated

A bridge at Williamstown was built

Laura Jackson Arnold was named "Mother of the Regiment" by the 5th West Virginia Cavalry

The Kessinger Brothers started performing on radio station WOBU (WCHS)

A new city council was seated in Hinton

Guyan Valley High School was built in Pleasant View

Kyle McCormick became publisher of the Princeton Observer

A granite monument marking Zackquill Morgan's grave was erected

Lawrence Nuttall donated his plant collection to the WVU Herbarium

The American Viscose Corporation started rayon production in South Parkersburg

Giuseppe Argiro of Fairmont was credited with creating the pepperoni roll

1,099 cases of smallpox were reported in West Virginia

The state's milk control program began

The federal court case United Mine Workers of America v. Red Jacket Consolidation Coal and Coke Company affirmed the use of injunctions against union organizing efforts

Blind Alfred Reed wrote "The Wreck of the Virginian"

Walter Reuther moved to Detroit

Frederick H. Rhead joined the Laughlin Company

The boundaries of the Monongahela National Forest were extended to include the Smoke Hole

Legislature acted to acquire additional areas for state parks

Festus Summers studied at Columbia University

The William Byrne Elk River tales began a regular feature in the West Virginia Wild Life Magazine, and were later published as Tale of the Elk

Sam Taylor ended his state police career after losing a leg in an on-duty motorcycle accident

W.W. Trent became president of Alderson-Broaddus College

A planing mill in Parson became a woolen mill

Consolidation Coal Company became the largest independent bituminous mining company in the nation

I. C. White stopped serving as first director of the West Virginia Geological & Economic Survey

Lenna Lowe Yost became the first woman to serve on the West Virginia Wesleyan College Board of Trustees

Gas leak and fire destroyed much of the glass factory, but the company resumed a year later

Vernon Johnson was reelected as Speaker of the House of Delegates

Emile Hodel became editor of the Beckley Post-Herald

Michael Benedum built the Bridgeport Civic Center

Reorganization transferred state mental health and penal institutions to Department of Mental Health and the Commissioner of Public Institutions

Weirton Steel purchased Browns Island for $40,000

S. Maude Kaemmerling willed 3,135 acres of land in Canaan Valley to West Virginia for recreational use

FMC developed new source of brine at Bens Run

City National Bank opened its doors under President Donald Shonk

Bishop mine explodes again

Jim Comstock founded the weekly West Virginia Hillbilly

Deer restocking program ended

Roy Bird Cook received the Award of Merit from the West Virginia Library Association

Little Jimmy Dickens left the Grand Ole Opry

Irvin Dugan retired as newspaper artist

Donald Duncan's sons took over the Duncan Yo-Yo Company

Fairfax Stone dedicated as state historic monument and became state park

Gunner Gatski played football one year for Detroit

The Knights of the South Branch was organized to revive medieval jousting

Roy Lee Harmon wrote Unto the Hills

Logan High School and its field house and athletic fields were constructed on Hatfield Island

Ken Hechler moved to West Virginia to teach at Marshall College (now University)

The first interstate highway construction contract in the state was awarded on I-64 for a bridge across a road in Cabell County

Jean Lee Latham was awarded the Boys' Clubs of America Junior Book Award for Trail Blazer of the Seas

The McClains were approached by WVU professors who feared that early West Virginia histories would be lost if not reprinted

Kyle McCormick wrote The Story of Mercer County

John Norman served on the aircraft carrier Saratoga

A group from West Virginia and Ohio purchased land to establish a college with an independent board of trustees, now Ohio Valley University

Marbon Chemical is built

The announcement of plans to merge the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central System was made

Filippo Colasessano's son began selling pepperoni rolls in his Fairmont lunch spot

The Division of Disease Control began a statewide polio vaccination program

The Kanawha River bridge was opened in Winfield

Red Ribble stopped photographing southern West Virginia

Otis Rice began teaching at West Virginia Institute of Technology

The Wm. M. Ritter Lumber Company company stores were sold

The Wm. M. Ritter Lumber Company coal reserves were leased to the Island Creek Coal Company

Jay Rockefeller went to the International Christian University in Tokyo

Shenandoah Downs purchased land north of Charles Town Race Track for night harness racing

WVU Rod Hundley became All-American in basketball

Jim Sprouse began practicing law

Beckley radio station WAJR increased to 5,000 watts

The last high school basketball was played under the African-American West Virginia Athletic Union

Benjamin Starks founded the Beacon Journal in Charleston

The Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council agreed to combine as the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

West Virginia State College lost its federal land-grant status

Stanley H. Martin became president of West Virginia Wesleyan College

The Whipple mine shut down and the company store closed

The Winfield bridge was completed

WSAZ radio switched affiliation to NBC

Henry Payne became the first editorial cartoonist to make his work available via computer

Cecil Roberts played a key role in the UMWA successful strike against Pittston Company

Bernard W. Schmitt became bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

The Harrison Rural Electrification Association had 4,713 customers

The Smoot Theater was rescued by a citizen group headed by Felice Jorgeson

The Crain v. Bordenkircher case changed state policies regarding the prison system

The Jewell v. Manard case required legislature to redesign the system for compensating court-appointed attorneys

Union Carbide and Indian government reached a settlement for the Bhopal plant incident

The Ohio Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation built a church near Wheeling

The Pittston Company tried to abrogate commitments to the UMWA welfare and retirement fund

The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra celebrated 50 years

Ruby Memorial Hospital was designated the state's first level one trauma center

Construction of a Ronald McDonald House began in Morgantown

New owners led Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel out of bankruptcy

WVU at Parkersburg was re-affiliated with WVU

Don Blankenship became president of Massey Coal Services

Dennis Harrah was inducted into the Miami University Sports Hall of Fame

The speaker of the House of Delegates was Robert "Bob" Kiss

Literacy West Virginia was formed from the merger of the Literacy volunteers of America and Lauback Literacy Action

William Drennen and Kojo Jones wrote Red, White, Black & Blue: A Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia

Plans were made to consolidate Iaeger and Big Creek high schools in McDowell County

Chuck Kinder wrote The Last Mountain Dancer which includes the Mothman

The Mountain State University Cougars won the NAIA Division I national basketball championship

Mylan Laboratories announced plans to acquire non-generic drug maker King Pharmaceuticals

Huntington Banks became the third-largest bank holding company in West Virginia

The National Bank of Commerce became SunTrust

The New River Community and Technical College was made independent of Bluefield State College

The U.S. 60 bridge connecting Cabell and Wayne counties was named the Colonel Justice M. Chambers Memorial Bridge.

Buffalo Toyota plant workers built engines for Corolla, Matrix, Sienna, and Lexus

United Bankshares was the largest bank headquartered in West Virginia

Construction began on a pharmacy school at University of Charleston

Verizon became one of largest providers of long-distance in West Virginia

Watt Powell Park in Charleston was demolished

WesBanco Bank, Inc operated 86 banking offices in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania