Fort Randolph

The Treaty of Camp Charlotte was negotiated after the Battle of Point Pleasant

Burning Springs were included in a survey for Gens. George Washington and Andrew Lewis

Thomas Bullitt surveyed much of present downtown Charleston

Forks of Cheat Baptist Church organized at Stewartstown

First reference to current name of Droop Mountain

Chief Cornstalk and other Ohio chiefs signed the Treaty of Pittsburgh

First detailed description of Grave Creek Mound by Nicholas Cresswell

The Morris family had settled and established a boat yard on the Kanawha River

William Morris claimed lands in Nicholas County

Gen. Charles Lee purchased the original log house of Prato Rio.

The Mequashake Shawnees led by Cornstalk adopted neutrality during the American Revolution

Thomas Walker served in the House of Burgesses

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

Kentucky was created as a county of Virginia

An Apology for Christianity was published in response to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Virginia's original constitution went into effect, favoring east over west

William Crawford commissioned colonel

Lord Dunmore returned to England

Virginia abolished quitrents and excepted Fairfax's proprietary

Daniel Greathouse died of measles

John Holliday began operating a trading post at Hollidays Cove

Early explorer Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Mad Anthony Wayne joined the continental army

The Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called Westsylvania

An new effort to form a colony like Vandalia began

Fort Henry was renamed for Governor Patrick Henry