Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy

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

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

Cabell, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties provided infantry regiments for service in the Mexican-American War

The B&O leased the Northwestern Virginia Railroad

A troupe presented "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at The Atheneum

Belle Boyd was sent to Mount Washington School in Baltimore

Archibald Campbell moved to Wheeling

William Edwards erected the first cannel coal oil works

Thomas English moved from Logan County to Tazewell, Virginia

Glenville was incorporated

Grafton was chartered

Hamilton Hatter was born in Jefferson County

Andrew Gardner Jackson was born

George Smith Patton moved to Charleston and organized the Kanawha Riflemen

Daniel Lucas graduated from University of Virginia

Mannington was chartered as a town by the Virginia legislature

The city of Mason was incorporated

Henry Mathews graduated from University of Virginia

Oglebay Park Mansion Museum property was purchased by George W. Smith

Piedmont was chartered

Francis Pierpont helped found the Fairmont Male and Female Seminary.

A B&O station was located at Cairo

The Walton post office moved to Droddyville

The first church was built in the St. Joseph Settlement

William Stevenson was elected a member of the Pennsylvania legislature

Ralph Swinburn was ordained a Baptist minister

Wheeling Hospital moved to the Michael Sweeney Mansion

The Intelligencer was acquired by Archibald Campbell

The Mountain Artisans dissolved

Ohio Valley College was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Auburn School one-room school closed

Owens-Illinois Glass Company began phasing out operation at the Fairmont plant

Jayne Anne Phillips received a masters degree

William Pierce published The Turner Diaries under a pseudonym.

The legislature commissioned an independent study of the PSC's structure and operations