West Fork River

Jesse Bennet married Elizabeth Hogg

Campbell mansion built at Bethany

Harman Blennerhassett joined the secret Society of United Irishmen

William Cabell received a law degree from College of William and Mary

Edward Brake Jackson was born

Indian captive Mary Kinnan's letter arrived in New Jersey

Bishop Asbury again held sessions of the Greenbrier Conference at Rehoboth Church

George Steptoe Washington married Lucy Payne

Ebenezer Zane laid out the town of Wheeling

There were about 16 churches in present West Virginia

The Greenbrier Association of Baptists established

John Beckley wrote a Jefferson campaign biography

Ephraim and Anna Musick Hatfield moved their family from Russell County, Virginia to the Tug Valley

Jesse Hughes returned to West Virginia

John George Jackson married Mary Payne

The site of Jackson's Mill was first settled by Edward Jackson

Old State Road was opened to the Ohio River

Joseph Johnson traveled to Winchester, Virginia

George Gregg built a gristmill and sawmill on the Jug of Middle Island Creek

The Hatfields settled in Lincoln County

John Marshall was appointed secretary of state

The first whites settled in Mingo County as farmers

Newport was given a charter

Nicholas Harvey acquired the site of Red Sulpher Springs

John Bunnell built a cabin in Pennsboro

St. Albans was first settled as Coalsmouth

Sampson Sanders settled in Cabell County

Permanent settlement on the Tug Fork began

Henry Jolley established a ferry across the Ohio River at Sistersville

Union was established by General Assembly to be county seat for Monroe County

Fort Gay was the first permanent settlement in Wayne County

Isaac Williams was authorized to operate a ferry to carry traffic to the Ohio Shore

Barney McGraw planted the first apple orchard in the Little Kanawha Valley

James Wood left office as governor of Virginia

Northwestern Bank of Virginia in Wheeling chartered

The Bank of the Valley in Virginia chartered in Winchester

Theodore Burr patented his system for covered bridges

The town Beauchamp's Mills was renamed for Elizabeth Woodland Beauchamp

Sistersville Ferry began operation from Sistersville to Fly, Ohio

Aaron Stockton bought the Glen Ferris Inn

Abner Vance fled a Russell County murder charge and took refuge in Tug Valley

John George Jackson became the president and chief stockholder of the Monongahela Navigation Company

Coal began being mined to fuel the salt works

Daniel Haymond settled at the head of the North Fork of the Hughes River

The Turnpike Act passed providing for financing and organization of canal and turnpike companies

The Staunton Turnpike was chartered by the General Assembly to end at Sistersville

Weston was founded

Cheat River flood

Davis Grubb published Shadow of My Brother

Questions were raised on the authenticity of the birthplace of Nancy Hanks

William Hoffman wrote Yancey's War

Walt Shupe became superintendent of the Holly River State Park

The West Virginia Human Rights Commission reported that "blatant racial discrimination" was over

Reported that Kanawha State Forest holds 574 species from 292 genera representing 93 families of fauna

Clark Kessinger was a guest artist on the Grand Ole Opry radio program

John Knowles wrote Indian Summer

The Library Commission adopted a plan for implementing the Blasingame Report proposals

Curly Ray Cline joined the Stanley Brothers

Bill Hart retired as editor of the Dominion News

Breece D'J Pancake argued that Mothman was a California condor in a letter in the Huntington Herald Dispatch

Mylan Pharmaceuticals began manufacturing its generic version of penicillin G

James Marvin Powell became president of Ohio Valley College (now University)

Radio station WVBC, licensed to Bethany College, began broadcasting.

James Rexrode's wife died

Mary Lee Settle wrote All the Brave Promises

A controversy involving State Road Commission purchasing practices arose.

Congressman Harley Staggers became chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee

Buddy Starcher recorded "History Repeats itself" for Boone Records

Eleanor Steber quit singing with the Metropolitan Opera

The Carr China Factory building burned

Three more dormitories were built at Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

A student union building was built at Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

Gary District became the first black high school to win the WVSSAC state basketball championship

Williamson Liberty lost the WVSSAC

A separate organization began representing the interests of West Virginia's surface mining operators

Harrison Ferrell left as dean of West Virginia State College (now University)

Edwin D. Hoffman was appointed dean as the first white administrator at West Virginia State College (now University)

Victorine Louistall returned to WVU to teach library science

Wesley Chapel opened at West Virginia Wesleyan

Wheeling Hospital set up the first coronary care unit in West Virginia

Frank R. Haig, S.J. became president of Wheeling College (now Wheeling University)

The Mingo County Courthouse was built in Williamson

4 to 8 inches of rain had fallen

A great flood ripped through the Trough

The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history occurred when river rose more than nine feet above flood stage

The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history hit

Timber and Watershed Lab at Fernow Forest was severely damaged by the flood

Greenbrier River crested at 23.95 feet, more than nine feet above flood stage, killing 47 people

Record flooding occurred in central and eastern West Virginia, killing 47 people

High water reached 13 ft above flood stage at Glenville

Major flood caused great damage to Marlinton

There was a major flood in Parsons

Cheat River crested at 24.3 feet, more than eight feet above flood stage

Raging flood waters killed 16 people in Pendleton County

The Philippi mummies were damaged in the flood and were treated by a local funeral home

WVMR was major in reporting during the great flood

South Charleston Stamping and Manufacturing Company took over the VW plant at Charleston Ordnance Center

Stephen Coonts wrote Final Flight

Ken Joseph of Ashland, Kentucky bought the Edwards Moonlight to renovate it as a restaurant

Daniel Boyd released the movie Chillers

A report stated that 78% of the state was forested

Henry Louis Gates wrote The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism

Mrs. Ailes retired as assistant editor of the Hampshire Review

The first woman, Bessie Horn, was admitted to the He-Man Club

The state's original interstate system was completed

The state budget was $3.3 billion

William Hoffman wrote By Land By Sea

Kaiser Aluminum plant was sold to Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation

Girls were again admitted to Linsly school

Lee Maynard published the novel Crum

Louise McNeill published The Milkweed Ladies

Louise McNeill published TheMilkweed Ladies

Richard Osborne was promoted to publisher of the Logan Banner

West Virginia became a charter member of the multi-state "Lotto America" game

Irene McKinney published a collection of poetry, Quick Fire and Slow Fire

The section of the Midland Trail from White Sulphur Springs to Charleston was designated as West Virginia's first state scenic highway