Berkeley Springs State Park

James Otis Watson was born in Fairmont

Dr. Richard Ellis Putney set up practice in Malden

Claude Crozet ended term with Napoleon at his defeat at Waterloo

The stockade at Fort Lee was torn down

Patrick Gass returned home to Brooke County after the War of 1812

Stockton's Tavern, later known as the Glen Ferris Inn, was built by two Irishmen

Reported 52 salt furnaces were operating along the Kanawha River for a distance of ten miles east of Charleston

A small settlement began to farm near the present day eastern corporate limits of Hurricane

Joseph Johnson was elected to the House of Delegates

Maps for the Virginia Board of Public Works began being published

Daniel Ruffner built Holly Grove mansion in Charleston

Asa Shinn laid out town lots in present Shinnston

The daughters of Charles Wells laid out town lots for Sistersville

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

The first general conference of the clergy of the Church of the United Brethren was held

A log House was built in Union

Cabell County troops fought at the Battle of New Orleans

City Hospital preceded Camden-Clark on Wells Avenue

Roy Bird Cook family moved to Weston

Phoebia G. Moore became first woman to study at WVU Medical School

Fred, A. B., and Maurice Brooks began annual naturalist trips

Mack Day married Charlotte June Milam

Herman Johnson took over the Inter-Mountain at Elkins

West Virginia was first in the nation in oil production

Homer Laughlin retired and moved to California

John D. Rockefeller entered the natural gas business in West Virginia when Standard Oil formed Hope Natural Gas Company

The first lock system was completed on the Kanawha River

Dependable steamboat schedules established on the Kanawha River

Blanche Lazzell received a diploma from West Virginia conference Seminary

Mannington was wired for electricity

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Randolph County

The Mount Carbon Prehistoric Site was documented by Dr. John P. Hales for the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society

West Virginia's oil production passed that of Pennsylvania

William Nelson Page began directing the building of the Virginian Railway

Pardee & Curtin purchased a band sawmill at Elizabeth.

Mountain State Business College was founded

Andrew Rowan was chosen as the carrier for President Wm. McKinley's message to Cuba

Nathan Scott was elected to the U.S. Senate

The courthouse in Summersville was completed

Wm. Trevey and father began a photography studio in Glen Jean

The Historical Society suggested the state construct a fireproof building

The two national guard regiments were merged into one for the Spanish-American War

The courthouse at Winfield was destroyed in a windstorm

Congress passed the National Passenger Railroad Act, creating Amtrak

Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The West Virginia Department of Public Institutions (now Division of Corrections) leased the Anthony Correctional Center for use as a correctional center for juvenile males

Dr. Edward V. McMichael, state archeologist, left the Geological Survey

Lincoln County attracted many back-to-the-land settlers

Catholic Workers farm established in Lincoln County

Gray Barker published The Silver Bridge

Maurice Brooks received the Order of Vandalia from WVU

Chauncey H. Browning Sr. was Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court

Cabin Creek Quilts began as a self-help quilting cooperative

Clay County population dropped to 9,330

Bernard Coffindaffer suffered from mental and physical breakdown

Legislative Improvement Amendment ratified

Governor's Succession Amendment ratified, allowing two successive terms

Dennis Harrah was an all-state center on the Stonewall Jackson High School football team

George Daugherty took the stage name "The Earl of Elkview"