Zackquill Morgan

Settlement began in present Hampshire County

Lord Fairfax first visits his lands in Virginia

Daniel Boone served as teamster on Braddock campaign during French & Indian War

William Crawford was militia soldier under Gen. Edward Braddock

Andrew Lewis accompanied Braddock's expedition to Fort Duquesne

George Washington helped save British Forces from complete destruction at the defeat of General Braddock

Fort Pitt named

Fort rebuilt at the site of Fort Seybert after the massacre

Fort Stanwix was completed

Families returned to the area after French defeated in upper Ohio Valley

Gen John Forbes captured the Forks of the Ohio and built Fort Pitt at present Pittsburgh

William Crawford was militia soldier under Gen. John Forbes

George Washington returned to Mount Vernon for a planter's life

Three Cherokee leaders, including Ostenaco, operated a pincer campaign against Fort Duquesne

Horatio Gates, then General, defeated British General Burgoyne at Saratoga

Western Land was offered in payment to Revolutionary War veterans

Zackquill Morgan became the proprietor of an "ordinary" (Tavern or inn)

Zackquill Morgan had Morgantown surveyed on his land

The recorded owner of Organ cave was John Gardner

John McCue planted churches in Lewisburg, Union, and Spring Creek.

The British accepted Virginia's claim to the Ohio Valley territory in the Treaty of Paris, which ends the Revolutionary War

The Tomlinson family returned to the Grave Creek area

John Thornton Augustine Washington was born

Francis Asbury named the first superintendent of American Methodists

Virginia ceded its claim to the Northwest Territory to the U.S.

George Washington visited the Cheat River

People settled in Monongalia County and Pennsylvania after the Revolutionary War

Clarksburg became the county seat of the new Harrison County

Fort Harmar was established in Marietta, Ohio, as a frontier fort

George Washington exploratory trip into the Ohio Valley encouraged the James River Company

The Rehoboth Methodist Church was established in Monroe County

George Washington visited Zackquill Morgan to discuss possible locations of roads

Yohogania County was dissolved when the Virginia-Pennsylvania border dispute was settled

George Washington and others formed the Potowmack Company

Senecas began allying themselves with the Shawnee

The Mason-Dixon line survey was completed

Governor Benjamin Harrison granted land to Washington in present Dunbar and St. Albans, and also in present Marshall County

Izetta Brown married Hugh Miller

Everett Ferguson acquired Browns Island in its entirety

Fannie Cobb Carter's husband Emory Carter died

Union Carbide moved to Rollin Chemical site in So. Charleston

John Harrington Cox's dissertation published as Cox presided over founding of West Virginia Folklore Society Folk-Songs of the South by Harvard Univ. Press

Levi Dean built the Ricketts house in Huntington

Henry Davis Hazelwood was appointed the principal of Douglass High School

Dreamland pool in Kenova opened as a private business

DuPont built the Belle plant

Alpha Psi Omega, an international collegiate honor society for drama students, was founded at Fairmont State College (now Fairmont State University)

West Virginia Farm Bureau Service Company was organized

Stage Struck starring Gloria Swanson was filmed in New Martinsville

A fire destroyed nearly all of the Greenbrier Military School's buildings

John Harrington Cox documented nine version of "John Hardy," confusing Hardy and Henry as the same person in Folk-Songs of the South

Federal board unveiled national system of interstate routes and uniform highway signs

Reported 233 high school were open in the state

The Itmann Company Store opened

John L. Dickinson became president of Kanawha Valley Bank after the death of John Q. Dickinson

Kanawha Valley Hospital bought the Barber Sanatorium and Hospital facility

Tom Kromer first attended Marshall College

Jean Lee Latham graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College

A new building on Linsly's campus was built

Pare Lorentz moved to New York

Minnie Lowther wrote Marshall Hall

The "Thundering Herd" nickname was first used after Marshall defeated Glenville State

Jacob Marcus received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin

The Governor's Mansion was completed

John Matheus' short story "Fog" won first place in the Opportunity magazine short story contest

Bernard McDonough left Georgetown University

Howard B. Lee became attorney general

Governor Morgan pardoned John Wilburn

The first Mountaineer Field was completed

William Page Pitt graduated from Muskingum College

Pocahontas Coal & Coke Company moved to Bluefield

William Revercomb married Sara Hughes

A scrip law was written by coal company lobbyists making scrip non-transferable

The Sistersville to New Martinsville streetcar line ceased operation

Dial service was introduced in Huntington

The United Carbon Company was formed

Berkerly Countian Benjamin Snyder built his home reflecting aspects of the Sears, Roebuck and Company's Sheridan house

The Virginian Railway began electrification of its trains

Only 134 students were enrolled at West Liberty State Normal School (now West Liberty University)

Legislature created another West Virginia Historical Society with an appointive body

Legislation passed to have the state historian and archivist to publish a quarterly history magazine

A new administration building was completed at West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State University)

The Greek fraternal system replace earlier literary societies at West Virginia Wesleyan College

Whitaker-Glessner subsidiary, the Principio Company ceased production of pig and bar iron in Maryland

T. G. Nutter lobbied against the Charleston premiere of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation

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

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

Ernest T. Weir took over as chief executive officer of National Steel

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