Mount Storm Lake

Commissioner assigned responsibility to regulate farm products

The Allegheny Lodge was built

Waitman Barbe wrote Great Poems Interpreted

Walter Barnes wrote English in the Country School

John Peale Bishop entered Princeton

Charles F. Millspaugh wrote The Living Flora of West Virginia

James Callahan wrote Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia

Consolidated Manufactories pottery factory established by Merchants Association of Grafton

John Harrington Cox collected his first folk song

Henry Gassaway Davis was chairman of Semi-Centennial Commission

Alston Dayton made the injunction from the Hitchman Coal & Coke v. John Mitchell case permanent

Legislature passed act that provided for the employment of extension agents

West Virginia appropriated fire protection funds

The Glenville high school received its own building

Nathan Goff served in the U.S. Senate

The building of the central section of the Greenbrier Hotel and the Old White golf course were completed

Legislature created the State Road Bureau

Annual coal production exceeded 28 million tons

Ritter Park in Huntington was fashioned from land originally intended for a city incinerator

Louis Johnson was admitted to the bar in Clarksburg

Harriet Jones helped to establish Hopemont Sanitarium

Teepi Kendrick became the state agent in charge of the corn clubs for boys and canning clubs for girls

Keyser was incorporated

Supreme Court decisions on State ex rel. Nance v. Mays, Ex parte Jones, and Hatfield v. Graham were decided during the labor rebellion and accorded vast power to the executive branch to use martial law

Weston became the southern terminus of regional electric trolley car service

The second courthouse in Madison was torn down

Redress was allowed under the original workers compensation statue

Course work was added to Marshall University to include the equivalent of freshman and sophomore years of college

Walter Martens began working as a draftsman in Danville

The title was changed from Evening Journal to Martinsburg West Virginia Evening Journal

Hu Maxwell co-authored West Virginia and Its People

Bill McKell completed his own branch railroad to connect with the Virginian Railway at Pax

John McWhorter left office as judge of West Virginia's 12th judicial circuit

John McWhorter drafted the Yost Law, providing for enforcement of state prohibition

The Mennonites building was moved to Roaring Creek

The Minter Homes Corporation was established in Huntington

A major refinery was built at St. Marys by Quaker State

United States Senate looked into Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike

John Nugent was question by the U.S. Senate investigating committee for efforts to import strikebreakers to West Virginia

John Nugent left West Virginia for Kentucky

The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly fathered the state's first workers compensation bill

The Ohio Valley Refining Company was established at St. Marys

Livia Poffenbarger sold the State Gazette.

Legislature passed the Yost law, under which prohibition was enforced, creating the Department of Prohibition

The state's first tuberculosis sanitarium was founded at Hopemont in Preston County

The Public Service Commission was created by the legislature

Leonard Riggleman passed the uniform teachers exam

The first high school opened in Ripley

St. Francis Hospital was founded by Patrick J. Donahue

The Sacred Heart Hospital opened

The Salt Sulphur Springs resort was closed

The Star House was acquired by W. B. and Ida Skaggs

Flags were unofficially made for the semi-centennial celebration featured a new design

P. D. Strausbaugh graduated from Wooster (Ohio) College

P. D. Strausbaugh began teaching at Wooster (Ohio) College

A streetcar line between Sistersville and Middlebourne was built

Congress passed the 16th Amendment for a federal income tax on corporation

The Indian Camp Normal School was established

Clarence W. Watson finished his term in the U.S. Senate

John S. Bonar graduated from West Liberty

"The West Virginia Hills" was published in The West Virginia Singer

Legislature changed the name to Weston State Hospital

West Virginia House of Delegates passed a state women's suffrage amendment

Development of West Virginia's Appalachian Corridor highways began

Appalachian Regional Commission established by Congress

President Johnson's War on Poverty began

Charleston joins Morgantown and Huntington as alternating site of state high school basketball tournament

George Hodel became president of Beckley Newspapers

Bens Run Earthworks officially recorded by the Archeology Section of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

W. E. Blackhurst published Of Men and A Mighty Mountain

E. J. Scrafford became interim president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Weldon Boone wrote A History of Botany in West Virginia

Maurice Brooks published The Appalachians

Harry F. Byrd retired from the Senate

Governor Smith signed bill to end death penalty in West Virginia

Franklin Cleckley earned a J.D. from Indiana University

Arden Cogar exhibited his wood chopping at New York World's Fair

Diamond Department Store built a $1 million addition to its Charleston building

Pete Everest became brigadier general

African-American State Farm and Homemakers Council voted to join the West Virginia Homemakers Council

Gertrude Humphrey left WVU Extension work

One-volume edition of Flora of West Virginia was published

Ruth Ann Musick published The Telltale Lilac Bush

Ruel Foster wrote Jesse Stuart

Per capita personal income in West Virginia was 76% of national average

The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation made its first discretionary grant, to Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

State Route 150, the Highland Scenic Highway, began construction

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) was established

Hope Natural Gas Company and New York State Natural Gas Corporation merged to form Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation

Hopemont Sanitarium became a personal care center

Blasingame Report recommending improved library service was completed

The West Virginia Library Commission launched an ambitious library construction project

A joint committee was created to study and survey matters of government, finance, and claims against the state and make recommendations to the full legislature

The Logan Banner was sold to a Tennessee publishing company

Marco mascot first began showing up at Marshall University events

Dan Maroney was elected a vice president in the Amalgamated Transit Union

Paul Marshall stopped working at Libbey-Owens-Ford in Kanawha City

Morgantown Glassware Guild was purchased by Fostoria Glass

Mylan Pharmaceuticals moved to Morgantown

The last coke-making operation in the New River Gorge closed at Sewell

Delf Norona became the first recipient of the Sigfus Olafson Award for his outstanding contributions to the West Virginia archeology

E. Lewis Case became president of Ohio Valley College (now Ohio Valley University)

Ohio Valley College (now University) was accredited by the state of West Virginia

Congress created the 100,000 acre Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area.

Jack Rollins moved to Cincinnati

The Soupy Sales Show first debuted nationally

Burl Sawyers resigned as state roads commissioner under indictment

Charles Town Race Track installed lighting

Smoke Hole became part of the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area

Red Sovine wrote "Giddyup Go"

Miles Stanley was selected as personal assistant to AFL-CIO President George Meany

Fred Torrey made a bust of John F. Kennedy

U.S. combat troops first deployed in the Vietnam War

The War on Poverty was scaled back due to the escalation of the Vietnam War

Don West came to West Virginia and established the Appalachian South Folklife Center

Charles Schiff became conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra