The Blackwater Chronicle

Mr. Boyd purchased land at the corner of Race and Spring, Martinsburg

Barrackville bridge built by Lemuel Chenoweth

Covington & Ohio Railroad was charted

Thomas English bought 27 coal leases and incorporated two coal companies

Hamlin was chartered by the General Assembly

Jedediah Hotchkiss married Sara Comfort

Nativists adhering to the Know Nothing party threatened a papal diplomat visiting Wheeling

John Jacob married Jane Baird

John Jacob was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Missouri

Joseph Johnson's wife died

Kingwood was chartered by the General Assembly

Hamlin was established by the General Assembly

Two locks and dams were added to the Guyandotte and Ohio River

Logan was chartered as town of Aracoma by the General Assembly

Mining began in Clifton

The St. John's Chapel was built

David Strother was commissioned by Harper and Brothers to write and illustrate article about sporting expedition into the Canaan wilderness

A suspension bridge was constructed on the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike at Sutton

The Fort Hill Farm brick house was built in Mineral County

Virginia's Chapel was built in Cedar Grove

Bishop Richard Whelan bought property for the Wheeling Hospital

Four-story building built as a warehouse for the Crescent Manufacturing Company in Wheeling

West Virginia became the nation's second-leading coal producer

Albert Walker became president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Hatfield-McCoy Trail for all-terrain vehicles opened

Robert C. Byrd took a stand against Bush administration's call for war on Iraq

Allegheny Energy Company transferred 12,000 acres to the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Redistricting had reduced 2nd Congressional district to 18 counties

Gale Catlett retired

Clarksburg's newspapers combined into one paper the Exponent Telegram

Stephen Coonts wrote Saucer