West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway

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

Freedmen's Bureau began operation in West Virginia

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

Archibald Campbell left the Wheeling Intelligencer

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

Harrison Ash became chief of police at Thurmond

Baldwin-Felts Agency helped break a strike in the New River Field

Rosa Pelham was forced out of the castle by debt

Sam Black Church is built

Mother Blizzard's family was evicted from their home because of her support of the coal strike

Aaron Bloch succeeded his brother, Samuel, as president of Bloch Brothers Tobacco

Stephen B. Elkins purchased the Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad

James Callahan was appointed chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at WVU

Andrew Carnegie donated $33,000 to Lewisburg Female Institute to build Carnegie Hall

Cecil B. Highland became a stockholder of Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

The Coal & Coke Railway Company sold the Central & Pittsburgh

Watson-Fleming-Camden syndicate acquired the Somerset Coal Company

Voters amended the constitution making Secretary of State an elected office

The Mahan family quit farming the land

Edward Franzheim was probably the most successful architect in West Virginia

The Greenbrier Military Academy was bought by the Greenbrier Presbytery and renamed the Greenbrier Presbyterial School

The Homer Laughlin China Company purchased the Newell Farm and expanded across the Ohio into West Virginia

Nancy Hart died

The state called troops to mining strikes

The state called troops to areas with striking miners

The Hazel Atlas Glass Company was created

The UMWA organized about 7,000 miners in the Kanawha Valley

James H. Nash bought Holly Grove Mansion and made changes

Albert F. Holden and William H. Coolidge inspected 30,000 acres of land on Coppers Fork of Island Creek

Elmer Jacobs designed the parts of Seneca Glass Company building that had fallen to fire

A History of the Valley of Virginia was reprinted

The C&O Railroad was built along the Guyandotte River

Patients other than coal miners were charged $1.59/ day at McKendree Hospital

The West Virginia University School of Medicine was founded in Morgantown

Samuel Alexander McCoy and G. W McCauley bought the Hardy County News from Capt. J. J. Chipley

Matthew M. Neely opened a Fairmont law office

John Nugent came to West Virginia as a UMWA organizer

Oak Hill's first high school was established by Charles T. Jones and Albert G. Sevy

George Rashid migrated to the United States from Syria

The Pinch Reunion was established by Judge William W. Wertz

The Greenbrier Division of the C&O was completed to Durbin

Potomac State College began operation as the West Virginia Preparatory School

The Rending of Virginia was originally published in Chicago by Mayer & Miller

Frederick Rhead came to America

Charles Ritter married Mabel McClinock

Benjamin Rosenbloom played on the WVU football team

St. Lawrence Boom & Manufacturing Company at Ronceverte began to receive logs from Anthony's Creek by rail

Shannondale Springs was sold to H.C. Getzendanner

The New River Coal strike occurred

The Capitol City Lodge incorporated the Pythian Mutual Investment Fund

A constitutional amendment increased the Supreme Court of Appeals justices to five

The Interurban streetcar line reached Vienna

Vienna opened West Virginia's first country club

Ward Engineering Works built the James Rumsey for the U.S. Engineering Corp

H. Rus Warne and Charles G. Rabenstein established an architect firm

Fairmont Coal Company operated 28 mines and employed 6,067

The community of Addison receives the postal name of Webster Springs

A narrow-gauge railroad arrived at Webster Springs

The Medical Society of West Virginia name changed to West Virginia State Medical Association

Charles Ambler received an M.A. in social sciences

Waitman Barbe wrote The Study of Poetry

Company constructed a three-story wooden hotel near the spring at Barger Springs

Walter Barnes graduated from WVU

Jesse Bloch married Jessie Thornton Moffat

C&O absorbed the Hocking Valley Railroad

William Edwin Chilton and others bought Charleston's electric streetcar system

Oliver Chitwood received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins

Coal & Coke Railway reached Clay

Alston Dayton was appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Legislature created a four-member Board of Examiners to issue teaching certificates

Charles Town Academy ceased

Fenton Art Glass Company opened in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

The Frederick Hotel was built in downtown Huntington

William Glasscock was appointed internal revenue collector for the District of West Virginia by President Theodore Roosevelt

The C&O Greenbrier Division extension to Winterburn was completed

The original Grimes Golden apple tree blew down

Ella Holroyd entered the Cincinnati Conservatory

Earnest T. Weir purchased the Jackson Iron & Tin Company tin mill at Clarksburg

John Jay Jackson Jr. retired as judge

Tommy Benford was born in Charleston

Blanche Lazzell received an art degree from WVU

St. George Orthodox Church of Charleston was established

Howard B. Lee graduated from Marshall College (now University)

Sarah Ann Legg went on trial for murder of Jay Legg

Carnegie library was established in Parkersburg

Oil and gas business began in Griffithsville

The entire Little Kanawha River system was acquired by the federal government

The electric streetcar service arrived in Mannington

Martin Christensen invented the marble-making machine

Frank McEnteer graduated from Harvard Engineering School

Jim Sellers and J.W Grimm bought a brick-making machine

The West Virginia Department of Mines was created

Matewan opened its first hospital

Margaret Montague published The Poet, Miss Kate, and I

The West Virginia State Museum was founded

The B&O Beaux Arts-style station in Wheeling was built

John Nugent was elected president of the state Federation of Labor

Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company expanded operations by buying a sawmill on Cherry River at Coal Siding.

The Western Maryland Railroad arrived in Paw Paw

A commercial department was added to Potomac State College

The Virginian Railroad developed a shop and yards in Princeton.

Teddy Roosevelt walked Eleanor Roosevelt down the aisle to marry FDR

St. Joseph's Hospital opened a nursing school

The Pope Dock Company built Sunny South

The Morgan Museum began in Putnam County by Sidney Morgan

The Sunrise mansion was built by William MacCorkle

Ernest T. Weir founded Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate in Clarksburg

The West Virginia Archives and History was created by legislature

The Historical Society ceased publication of The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly

The Historical Society collections were moved to the Capitol Annex

West Virginia Wesleyan College awarded its first five degrees

Albert White left office as governor

The Elk River Coal & Lumber Company organized

Timber in the Williams River watershed began being taken out by log train

Williamson was incorporated

A bridge at Williamstown was built

Laura Jackson Arnold was named "Mother of the Regiment" by the 5th West Virginia Cavalry