West Virginia National Guard

Morgan Morgan was commissioned captain of the militia

Morgan Morgan was commissioned captain of the militia which later became 201st Field Artillery (West Virginia Army National Guard)

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

Legislature appointed John George Jackson a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the war

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

Roman Bath house constructed in Morgan County at Berkeley Springs State Park

James Otis Watson was born in Fairmont

Dr. Richard Ellis Putney set up practice in Malden

Claude Crozet ended term with Napoleon at his defeat at Waterloo

The stockade at Fort Lee was torn down

Patrick Gass returned home to Brooke County after the War of 1812

Stockton's Tavern, later known as the Glen Ferris Inn, was built by two Irishmen

Reported 52 salt furnaces were operating along the Kanawha River for a distance of ten miles east of Charleston

A small settlement began to farm near the present day eastern corporate limits of Hurricane

Joseph Johnson was elected to the House of Delegates

Maps for the Virginia Board of Public Works began being published

Daniel Ruffner built Holly Grove mansion in Charleston

Asa Shinn laid out town lots in present Shinnston

The daughters of Charles Wells laid out town lots for Sistersville

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

The first general conference of the clergy of the Church of the United Brethren was held

A log House was built in Union

Report of Salt Rock petroglyphs included in Smithsonian Institution's "Contributions to Knowledge"

Bids authorized on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike

Rebecca Davis graduated from the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary

William Eagle died

First county and circuit courts of Wirt County met in "Old Red Brick"

The Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike was completed

John Floyd was elected governor

German immigration increased from desire to escape persecution during European Revolutions

The first German newspaper was established in Wheeling

The Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike was completed

Joseph H. Gill surveyed the Guyandotte River from its mouth to Gilbert Creek

The Ellicott Brothers business failed

C. P. Huntington went to California with the gold rush to sell supplies to miners

A Catholic Church was established at Sand Fork

John Jay Jackson Jr. served as prosecuting attorney of Wirt County

Daniel Lamb became the cashier of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia at Wheeling

A single lock and dam was built on the Elk River

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis published Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy was founded

Francis Pierpont began an association with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

A massive fire and flood doomed Creel's village to an early death

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates

Bancroft was settled

Henry Ruffner resigned as president of Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

James Stephenson left the House of Delegates

Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. died

Thomas Anshutz painted The Ironworkers' Noontime

Main building of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum at Weston was completed

Thomas Anshutz painted Ironworkers' Noontime

Raleigh County Index established by Edwin Prince

Joseph Beury and brothers began to buy tracts of coal land

Preston County Brookside Resort was built

Jimmy D. Johnson established water-powered mill at Brush Creek Falls

William Edwin Chilton passed the bar

The International Sunday School Association was organized in West Virginia

U.S Census published the first statistical compilation on West Virginia forests

Two-thirds of West Virginia still covered by old forest

Fairmont State had more students than any normal school

Post No. 1 of Guard Army of the Republic was organized in Martinsburg

Devil Anse Hatfield led the armed party rescuing Johnse Hatfield from the brothers of Rose Anna McCoy

Hinton was incorporated

Reported only 250 people lived in Hollidays Cove

Jedediah Hotchkiss began publishing a monthly magazine, The Virginias: a Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia

Census listed 8 Irish families totaling 43 persons occupying Irish Mountain

Jews lived in most of the developed areas of the state

George Latham was appointed as supervisor of the census for West Virginia's First District

William Leigh began studying under Hugh Newell at Maryland Institute

William MacCorkle was elected prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County

Hu Maxwell graduated from Weston Academy

John McGraw entered the practice of law

Agnes Reeves Greer was born

Orthodox Christians from Russia, Greece and Ottoman Empire began to settle in coalfields of West Virginia

St. Mary Carpatho-Russian Orthodox church was founded in Bluefield

There were 400 sawmills in West Virginia

Nathan Scott was elected to the Wheeling City Council

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Wheeling was erected by the Soldiers Aid Society

West Virginia's first telephone exchange was placed in service in Wheeling

The Funkhouser barn was built in Hardy County

Charles Ward began working full time at his own business

Construction began at a point on the B&O Railway

The mental hospital at Weston was completed

Wheeling had 30,737 people

Emanuel Wilson was elected speaker of the House of Delegates

Sensational articles of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud by Theron C. Crawford published in New York

B&O hauled 31% of nation's Tidewater-bound soft coal

Bluefield incorporated as a town

Bank of Bramwell opened

Matthew Clair graduated from Morgan College in Baltimore

Downtown streets of Clarksburg lit up by electricity

Cribs and booms located to direct logs into Coal River's main channel

Elkins was founded

Jack Glasscock managed Indianapolis Hoosiers baseball team for part of the year

The membership of Post No.1 of General Army of the Republic peaked at 3,161

The first major outbreak of the gypsy moth occurred

The Weekly Advertiser became a daily publication as the Advertiser

Harold Houston graduated from Charleston High School

Kenova founded by L. T. Peck

The West Virginia Bureau of Labor was created by state legislature

Daniel Lucas began serving as a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

William MacCorkle left prosecuting attorney's office

I.T. Mann had an apprenticeship at Greenbrier Valley Bank

Alexander Martin left DePauw University

Hu Maxwell wrote Idyls of the Golden Shore

The first oil was discovered in Monongalia County

Navigable slack water was extended to the Morgantown area

Anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was developed by I. C. White of WVU

The anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was first tested in Mannington

Pennzoil was founded

An iron truss bridge was built over the New River

West Virginia apple production was at 4.5 million bushels

William Nelson Page was president of Gauley Mountain Coal

Charles Ritter moved to West Virginia

Sheltering Arms Hospital saw its first patient

All telephone exchanges in northern West Virginia were interconnected

William Luke opened a pulp mill and incorporated the West Virginia Paper Company

Albert White was appointed as internal revenue agent

Emanuel Wilson advocated antitrust legislation and increased immigration into the state

Major timbering began in Wyoming County

Carrie Edwards married Abraham L. Williams

Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University) accepted its first male students

Cyrus Thomas published Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology.

Newton Diehl Baker received law degree from Washington and Lee University

New bridges were constructed in Harpers Ferry and some of the remaining Bollman trusses were converted to highway use

Evening Mail became morning paper after George Warren sold to John B. Floyd

Democratic Supremacy in West Virginia ended

John Cornwell passed the bar exam

John Dickinson became the first director of the West Virginia Bankers Association

John Hardy was hanged at Welch for killing a man in a card game

Pennsylvania Glass Sand Company began mining Oriskany sand in the same geological formation in Pennsylvania about 80 miles north of Morgan County, West Virginia

The Easton Roller Mill replaced buhrs with steam power and rollers

A high school was established in Harrisville

Only about half of state miners participated in a nationwide strike by UMWA

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians peaked in West Virginia with 647 men in 12 Hibernian divisions

Elmer Jacobs set up practice in Morgantown

John Dickinson became cashier of the Kanawha Valley Bank

Kenova was incorporated as a town

The city of Welch was incorporated

John McWhorter received a law degree from WVU law school

The B&O branch in Morgantown extended to Connellsville, Pennsylvania

The first two nurses at Wheeling City Hospital Training School received their diplomas

Livia Simpson Poffenbarger married George Poffenbarger.

The first Presbyterian Church was formed in Williamson.

Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Donahue was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling

Telephone switchboards were installed at Fairmont

The Big Moses gas well was drilled

Clarence W. Watson married Minnie Lee Owings

Kenova was chartered

The Historical Society was given larger quarters for its museum and library at the Capitol

Westvaco opened headquarters in New York City

Albert White managed the U.S. Senate campaign of Stephen B. Elkins

Strother Hotel burned down at Berkeley Springs

City Hospital preceded Camden-Clark on Wells Avenue

Roy Bird Cook family moved to Weston

Phoebia G. Moore became first woman to study at WVU Medical School

Fred, A. B., and Maurice Brooks began annual naturalist trips

Mack Day married Charlotte June Milam

Herman Johnson took over the Inter-Mountain at Elkins

West Virginia was first in the nation in oil production

Homer Laughlin retired and moved to California

John D. Rockefeller entered the natural gas business in West Virginia when Standard Oil formed Hope Natural Gas Company

The first lock system was completed on the Kanawha River

Dependable steamboat schedules established on the Kanawha River

Blanche Lazzell received a diploma from West Virginia conference Seminary

Mannington was wired for electricity

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Randolph County

The Mount Carbon Prehistoric Site was documented by Dr. John P. Hales for the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society

West Virginia's oil production passed that of Pennsylvania

William Nelson Page began directing the building of the Virginian Railway

Pardee & Curtin purchased a band sawmill at Elizabeth.

Mountain State Business College was founded

Andrew Rowan was chosen as the carrier for President Wm. McKinley's message to Cuba

Nathan Scott was elected to the U.S. Senate

The courthouse in Summersville was completed

Wm. Trevey and father began a photography studio in Glen Jean

The Historical Society suggested the state construct a fireproof building

The courthouse at Winfield was destroyed in a windstorm

Harrison Ash became chief of police at Thurmond

Baldwin-Felts Agency helped break a strike in the New River Field

Rosa Pelham was forced out of the castle by debt

Sam Black Church is built

Mother Blizzard's family was evicted from their home because of her support of the coal strike

Aaron Bloch succeeded his brother, Samuel, as president of Bloch Brothers Tobacco

Stephen B. Elkins purchased the Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad

James Callahan was appointed chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at WVU

Andrew Carnegie donated $33,000 to Lewisburg Female Institute to build Carnegie Hall

Cecil B. Highland became a stockholder of Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

The Coal & Coke Railway Company sold the Central & Pittsburgh

Watson-Fleming-Camden syndicate acquired the Somerset Coal Company

Voters amended the constitution making Secretary of State an elected office

The Mahan family quit farming the land

Edward Franzheim was probably the most successful architect in West Virginia

The Greenbrier Military Academy was bought by the Greenbrier Presbytery and renamed the Greenbrier Presbyterial School

The Homer Laughlin China Company purchased the Newell Farm and expanded across the Ohio into West Virginia

Nancy Hart died

The state called troops to mining strikes

The Hazel Atlas Glass Company was created

The UMWA organized about 7,000 miners in the Kanawha Valley

James H. Nash bought Holly Grove Mansion and made changes

Albert F. Holden and William H. Coolidge inspected 30,000 acres of land on Coppers Fork of Island Creek

Elmer Jacobs designed the parts of Seneca Glass Company building that had fallen to fire

A History of the Valley of Virginia was reprinted

The C&O Railroad was built along the Guyandotte River

Patients other than coal miners were charged $1.59/ day at McKendree Hospital

The West Virginia University School of Medicine was founded in Morgantown

Samuel Alexander McCoy and G. W McCauley bought the Hardy County News from Capt. J. J. Chipley

Matthew M. Neely opened a Fairmont law office

John Nugent came to West Virginia as a UMWA organizer

Oak Hill's first high school was established by Charles T. Jones and Albert G. Sevy

George Rashid migrated to the United States from Syria

The Pinch Reunion was established by Judge William W. Wertz

The Greenbrier Division of the C&O was completed to Durbin

Potomac State College began operation as the West Virginia Preparatory School

The Rending of Virginia was originally published in Chicago by Mayer & Miller

Frederick Rhead came to America

Charles Ritter married Mabel McClinock

Benjamin Rosenbloom played on the WVU football team

St. Lawrence Boom & Manufacturing Company at Ronceverte began to receive logs from Anthony's Creek by rail

Shannondale Springs was sold to H.C. Getzendanner

The New River Coal strike occurred

The Capitol City Lodge incorporated the Pythian Mutual Investment Fund

A constitutional amendment increased the Supreme Court of Appeals justices to five

The Interurban streetcar line reached Vienna

Vienna opened West Virginia's first country club

Ward Engineering Works built the James Rumsey for the U.S. Engineering Corp

H. Rus Warne and Charles G. Rabenstein established an architect firm

Fairmont Coal Company operated 28 mines and employed 6,067

The community of Addison receives the postal name of Webster Springs

A narrow-gauge railroad arrived at Webster Springs

Davis sold the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg(h) Railroad to the Gould interests

The Medical Society of West Virginia name changed to West Virginia State Medical Association

Kanawha Park was built in Charleston for baseball

Kanawha Park was built for baseball

Beckley street paving began

Newton Diehl Baker was appointed Secretary of War by President Wilson

John T. Harris produced the first volume of the West Virginia Blue Book

Izetta Brown took over management of Preston County farm and established modern dairy operation after husband's death

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company built a sawmill at Swandale

Col. E. G. Via bought the Camden Park

George Carter moved to Coalwood

The first fire towers were erected

Fairmont High School class wrote Marion County in the Making

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company located one of its main plants in Clarksburg

Letter from former Governor MacCorkle to state archivist Henry S. Green confuses John Hardy with John Henry

The West Virginia Asylum name changed to Huntington State Hospital

The company town of Itmann was built

Fanny Johnson published her only novel, The Beloved Son

Libbey-Owens-Ford built its large plate glass plant in Kanawha City

Herman Kump was defeated for prosecuting attorney

Blanche Lazzell began working in the method of single block color print

Howard B. Lee began serving as Mercer County prosecuting attorney

William Alexander MacCorkle wrote The White Sulphur Springs

Joseph Long became the postmaster of Huntington

Sam Mallison became city editor of the Clarksburg Telegram

Publication of the Market Bulletin began when James H. Stewart was agriculture commissioner

The Tilton family regained ownership of the Marlinton Opera House

John McGraw was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

Six passenger trains a day operated from Charleston to Blakeley on Kellys Creek

12 passenger trains a day were scheduled into Charleston

The Point Pleasant Register became a daily

Michael Owens launched a Charleston glass factory

Paden City was incorporated

Pendleton Land Company took over Paden City Pottery

The Wyoming County courthouse was built

Rat Rodgers was named to the All-American teams

Socialists controlled both District 29 and District 17 of the UMWA

The Charleston Interurban Railroad was built to Cabin Creek

The earliest recorded instance of surface mining in West Virginia occurred

The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia was incorporated

The USS Huntington was on the West Coast

The National Guard was activated in call for troops to pursue Pancho Villa on the Mexican border

Statewide constitutional referendum for women's suffrage passed

Carter G. Woodson began publication of the Journal of Negro History

A courthouse at Pineville was built

Frank Reeves received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were involved in recovery operation at Buffalo Creek

Otis Rice received the first Virgil A. Lewis Award of the West Virginia Historical Society

Cynthia Rylant won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for nonfiction for Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds

St. John's Chapel near Sweet Springs resort in Monroe County was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the Lynnside Historic District

Congress created the National Scenic Byways program to recognize national and state roads of special scenic value

Leon Sullivan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Andrew S. Rowan Memorial Home was closed

Jerry West was named to the WVU Sports Hall of Fame

The Whipple Company Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Jesco White appeared in the film Dancing Outlaw

A flood wall was built at Williamson

Meredith Sue Willis wrote Quilt Pieces

Melvin Wine was chosen as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts

Laurence Yep published The Star Fisher

S. L. Jones died

A second structure was added to West Virginia Graduate College at its new location in South Charleston

The West Virginia Graduate College became Marshall University College of Graduate Studies

Kenneth E. Smith became the third generation to run the McClain Printing Company when George Smith retired

Attorney General Darrell McGraw was involved in a suit against the tobacco industry that settled the state to $41.5 billion over 25 years

An additional 626 acres was added to Moncove Lake State Park to provide more hunting lands

The Sporting News named Randy Moss college football's top receiver

The Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center was built at the College of West Virginia (now Mountain State University)

Walter Dean Myers received the Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Book Award for Harlem

The National Conservation Training Center was completed

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's book Shiloh was adopted for film

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was awarded the Appalachian Medallion by the University of Charleston

Joe Powell retired as president of the West Virginia Labor Federation.

The Pride of West Virginia received the Sudler Trophy as the nation's No. 1 college marching band

The Shavers Fork Coalition was formed

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown

Marshall moved from Division 1 AA to Division 1 A

Meriluco was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

The first female trooper resigned from the State Police

Stone & Thomas closed the Charleston store

Anna Marsh caught a 50.37-inch 49.75 lb muskellunge in Stonecoal Lake, setting state record for weight

Toyota built an engine plant at Buffalo

Robert C. Byrd was awarded the West Virginia Distinguished Service Medal

Major renovations took place at Yeager Airport

The Intermediate Court of Appeal came into existence