Freedmen’s Bureau

There were 250 churches in West Virginia

Capt. John M. Burns established a sawmill at Burnsville

Jefferson and Berkeley confirmed as West Virginia by U.S. Congress

Henry Gassaway Davis received charter to build the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway

Dickinson-Shrewsbury partnership dissolved by the courts after partners died

Private school for black children, in Parkersburg, was converted to a public school

J. N. Boyd began publication of Vedette in Fairmont

Three men were hanged on the "hanging tree" at Fort Boreman

Grantsville was laid out

Grant County was formed from Hardy County

Morris Harvey and brother-in-law received a land grant from West Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River

The Radical-dominated legislature enacted the Voters' Registration Law

John Joseph Kain was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Richmond

The Buckhannon home of George Latham was purchased

A new shop complex was built in Martinsburg, with roundhouse

Elizabethtown and Moundsville were consolidated under Moundsville

Free schools were established in Moundsville

The multiflora rose was introduced to the eastern U.S. as rootstock for ornamental roses

The North Bend superintendent's residence was built by Christopher Douglas

Samuel Price became a director of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

George Lemon died

Sumner School became West Virginia's earliest black public school

H.M. Calhoun was born

Samuel W. Starks was born in Charleston

Sumner School became a part of the segregated public school system

Ceredo was incorporated

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway was chartered under the name of the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company

Archibald Campbell left the Wheeling Intelligencer

William H. Davis became a teacher for Malden’s Black children

Schools for black children were being built in 18 communities in West Virginia

A construction bid for Clarksburg School, an elementary black school, was accepted

A springhouse was built at Barger Springs (Summers County)

Jacob Blair was appointed minister to Costa Rica

The new Harpers Ferry bridge was completed

Thayer sold Ceredo to mortgage holder, Charles B. Hoard

Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad was created

Gen. William C. Wickham became president of the C&O Railroad

The state purchased the institution now known as Fairmont State University

Vedette changed name to the West Virginian

President Grant appointed Nathan Goff Jr. U.S. district attorney for West Virginia

Catherine Jackson White purchased Jackson's Mill

John Kenna finished his studies at St. Vincents Academy in Wheeling

Lincoln County's borders changed

The Agricultural College of West Virginia was renamed West Virginia University at the recommendation of Alexander Martin

Dr. H. Stieren of St. Louis established a bromine factory in Mason County

The Grand Army of the Republic established Decoration Day, predecessor to Memorial Day

The legislature created two public school districts in Morgantown, white and black

Anna Maria Jarvis organized Mothers' Friendship Day celebration

The steamboat Mountain Boy was built on the Monongahela River at Brownsville, Pennsylvania

All refineries except one founded by Johnson Newlon Camden closed due to his partnership with Standard Oil Trust

George Peterkin graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia.

Drilling for oil and gas began in Roane County

William Rosecrans served as minister to Mexico

John Cunningham acquired the Phillip R. Thompson property, which he had incorporated and named Kanawha City

Senator Peter Van Winkle cast the next-to-last vote and only Republican vote that saved President Andrew Johnson from being removed on impeachment charges

Fred E. Brooks was born

Reported 200 patients were being cared for at Weston State Hospital

Winfield was incorporated