Kanawha Salines

First mentioned in Lewis Summers journals

Robert Clendenin died in Ohio

Henry Harvey graduated from University of Pennsylvania

Dr. John McElhenney moved to Lewisburg

Mary Payne died

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 Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Alexander Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Martin Delany moved to Pittsburgh

Harpers Ferry Free Press became the Virginia Free Press

Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County, was laid out by Jacob Starcher

George Jackson died

Julie Neale Jackson died

Daniel Lamb was elected city clerk of Wheeling

A state law library was established in Lewisburg

The Western Virginian and People's Press was established in Elizabethtown

The trustees of Monongalia Academy established Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute

Anne Royall established Paul Pry newspaper in Washington

William Chapman Sr.'s Chapman Floating Theater floated down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh

Construction began at Staunton on turnpike

Wheeling was declared an inland port of entry

Richard Whelan was ordained to the priesthood

Waitman Willey graduated from Madison College in Pennsylvania