David Hunter Strother

The congregation of the African Zion Baptist Church formally organized for the black community of Malden.

Lemuel Chenoweth designed and built Philippi's covered bridge.

Buckhannon was chartered

Archibald Campbell graduated from Bethany College

James Watson organized the Montana Mining Company

Martin Delany published The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, And Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

William Edwards opened his first coal mines on Paint Creek

Thomas Moore Jackson was born

Jacob Jackson was admitted to the bar

Anna Maria Reeves married Granville E. Jarvis

George Smith Patton graduated the Virginia Military Institute

La Belle Ironworks was founded

Robert E. Lee became superintendent of West Point

Weston's first bank opened its doors

Thomas Lake Harris and James L. Scott jointly led the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community

The Wheeling Intelligencer was established

The Ritchie Mines was discovered by Frederick Lemon

Shinnston was chartered as a town by the General Assembly

George Summers was elected circuit judge of Kanawha County

Grafton emerged as a city

A major flood hit Virginius Island

James O Watson joined with Francis H. Pierpont to open a mine in Fairmont

Wheeling had a library

The Wheeling Intelligencer began

The Potomac River flooded

The Shenandoah River flooded

The Blackwater Chronicle was originally published

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

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