Wheeling

Joseph Ruffner was born

Thomas Shepherd established a gristmill at Shepherdstown

Daniel Boone's family resettled in North Carolina

Peter Burr house constructed in present Jefferson County

John, Thomas, and Andrew Lewis camped in what is now Lewisburg while surverying the area, named the Lewis Spring

John and Andrew Lewis discovered Marlin and Sewell living in present Pocahontas County during their survey

Christopher Gist made a second expedition for the Ohio Company

Christopher Gist was the first European to record a visit in present Marshall County while exploring for the Ohio Company

Robert Dinwiddie became governor of colonial Virginia

Matthew Arbuckle's first post was gentleman justice of Botetourt County

Development of the land called Grand Ohio Company, Vandalia Company and Walpole Company organized

John Beckley was sent to Virginia

Colonists began returning to the Greenbrier Valley.

Families descended the rivers and settled in the bottomlands of the Ohio

Waves of pioneers began to sweep into the upper Ohio, Monongahela, Greenbrier and Kanawha valleys

The first white people settled in present Lewis County

The first white settlers in Marshall County were John Wetzel and his family

The Pringle brothers led a small group of settlers back to the Buckhannon Valley to begin a permanent settlement there.

John Stuart was a surveyor in the expedition to establish a permanent settlement in Greenbrier

Adam Stroud settled in present Webster County as the first white settler

Chief Logan turned on the settlers and led several retaliatory raids

Chief Logan had four raids on white settlements during the summer

Kyashuta urged his associates to refrain from war against the Virginians

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

Kentucky was created as a county of Virginia

An Apology for Christianity was published in response to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Virginia's original constitution went into effect, favoring east over west

William Crawford commissioned colonel

Lord Dunmore returned to England

Virginia abolished quitrents and excepted Fairfax's proprietary

Fort Randolph was constructed at Point Pleasant under Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

Daniel Greathouse died of measles

John Holliday began operating a trading post at Hollidays Cove

Early explorer Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Mad Anthony Wayne joined the continental army

The Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called Westsylvania

An new effort to form a colony like Vandalia began

Western Virginia land grant gave 200,000 acres of land to Bruen

Richard Watson printed Christian Panoply, the first book printed in present West Virginia

Joseph Ruffner purchased 502 acres of land at Campbells Creek

John Dickinson conveyed a tract of 704 acres to Samuel and John Shrewsbury

An alderman system was authorized

William Beauchamp settled in the area of present Elizabeth

George, William and Alexander Clendenin sold Fort Lee to Joseph Ruffner

Joseph Ruffner arrived in the Kanawha Valley

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

Construction began on a more substantial courthouse for Ohio County

Walter Newman erected a hewn-log house at Point Pleasant which still stands today

David Ruffner finally left old Virginia

Thomas and Jonathan Buffington came to the mouth of the Guyandotte River to take possession of land

William Ice and Aiden Bales pioneered Grant District, Wetzel County

Obadiah Paden settle Paden City

James Wood became governor of Virginia

Jesse Bennet, wife, and daughter moved to Mason County

Buffington purchased the island, now Buffington Island

Elisha Brooks built the first salt furnace in the Charleston area

Book issued in Shepherdstown by P. Rootes and C. Blagrove

William Clendenin moved his family to Mason County

George Clendenin died in Marietta, Ohio

Salt furnaces in Kanawha County began

Jesse Bennet and family moved to Point Pleasant

Patrick Gass family located in Brooke County

The General Assembly created Brooke County from northern Ohio County

William Parson and Samuel Tanner settled in the Jackson County area

John J. Allen was born

Elisha Brooks built his salt furnace on land from Joseph Ruffner

Simon Kenton lost his wife in a fire

The Impartial Observer was founded in Shepherdstown

Pleasants County saw its first permanent settlers.

Anne Newport married William Royall

Lewis Ruffner was born

Walter Newman built a tavern at Point Pleasant

The William Little family settled Littleton

Oceana was established

President Jefferson ordered the arrests of Aaron Burr and Harman Blennerhassett for treason

Margaret Blennerhassett was forced to flee from her home after the Burr conspiracy

Felix Grundy was appointed to the Kentucky Supreme Court

The first schoolhouse was built in the Jackson County area

Lutheranism reached the Ohio River with the Roush family and Reverend Paul Henkel

John McLure relocated to Wheeling from Pennsylvania

Congress authorized construction of the National Road from Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling

Bens Run earthworks described in the journal of Thom Nuttall

Money was earmarked to pay tuition for poor white children to attend schools

Commercial coal mining began

James Madison Jackson was born

Jonathan Jackson and wife Julia Neale moved to Clarksburg

Bishop James Madison's maps appeared

Mail service on the unfinished National Road began to Wheeling

The ferry to present Winfield was established

The Runnion family arrived in Spencer

George Summers moved to Charleston to live with Lewis Summers

Alexander Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Alexander Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Martin Delany moved to Pittsburgh

Harpers Ferry Free Press became the Virginia Free Press

Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County, was laid out by Jacob Starcher

George Jackson died

Julie Neale Jackson died

Terra Salis became Malden when David Ruffner laid out lots, streets and alleys

Daniel Lamb was elected city clerk of Wheeling

A state law library was established in Lewisburg

The Western Virginian and People's Press was established in Elizabethtown

The trustees of Monongalia Academy established Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute

Anne Royall established Paul Pry newspaper in Washington

William Chapman Sr.'s Chapman Floating Theater floated down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh

Construction began at Staunton on turnpike

Richard Whelan was ordained to the priesthood

Waitman Willey graduated from Madison College in Pennsylvania

John D. Sutton gave one acre of ground for a public square in Sutton

Monroe County discontinued the system

Rebecca Davis family moved to Wheeling

The Winchester & Potomac Railroad opened line to Virginius Island at Harpers Ferry

The Virginia Geological Report noted the county's rich coal deposits

Henry Clay Furnace was built on Clay Run

The Henry Clay Furnace was built to supply pig iron to Ices Ferry Ironworks

The city of Ravenswood was laid out

Benjamin Kelley moved to Wheeling

Joseph Martin produced the only gazetteer of Virginia before the state split

Alexander Martin moved to Jefferson County, Ohio

The first courthouse in Elizabethtown (present Moundsville) was built

The first public building, a jail, was completed in present Moundsville

A new building was authorized to be built in Wheeling for the Ohio County courthouse

The C&O canal company began to carve through Sorrel Ridge

Samuel Price moved to Wheeling and became prosecuting attorney for Braxton County.

Anne Royall began publishing The Huntress newspaper

Henry Ruffner became president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)

William Chapman acquired a small steamboat to tow the Floating Theater upstream

Braxton County was formed

The United Brethren Virginia Conference sent Michael Moses to New Haven

The rear wing of Henderson Hall was built

Alfred Beckley was appointed a militia general

The Buffalo Academy was founded

Alexander Campbell elected president of the American Christian Missionary Society

Baltimore investors built Mountain House at Capon Springs

First national convention of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination

General Assembly authorized development of plans for improvements to make Coal River more navigable

John Gallaher was named auditor for the U.S. Treasury by President Zachary Taylor

Guyandotte was officially incorporated

City of New Cumberland received its charter from Virginia

Frank Hereford moved to California where he practiced law

John Jay Jackson Jr. served as prosecuting attorney of Ritchie County

Cummins Jackson died in California

John Jacob obtained a B.A. from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

The first Jewish community established a religious congregation in Wheeling

William C. Kelly was born

Construction on the B&O line Kingwood Tunnel began

George Latham moved to Taylor County

The Guyandotte Navigation Company was incorporated by the state of Virginia

The National Hotel was built in Martinsburg

Randolph McCoy married his cousin Sarah McCoy

Alexander Creel bought back land he had previously sold and established the city of St. Marys

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates.

William Miller died

Lydia Shepherd denied that Betty Zane made the famous gunpowder run to save Fort Henry, claiming it was Molly Scott

Patrick Donahue was born

The Wheeling tannery was founded by John G. Hoffman

Work began on the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

Winfield was laid out

A brick courthouse was completed at Winfield

1,500 slaves owned by salt barons or rented from owners worked in the Kanawha County salt works

Lemuel Chenoweth had finished many bridges on Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

Wills De Hass transferred the Grave Creek tablet and skull to the Smithsonian

Martin Delany finished medical school at Harvard Medical College

Fugitive Slave Act was passed

Western Virginia had 1,300 primary schools

Map showed Davidson's Ferry near mouth of Elk River and Goshorn's Ferry crossing the Kanawha River

The first courthouse was completed in Glenville

The First Baptist Church was organized in Greenville

Census reported three slaves in Hancock County

Nancy Hart and family were living in Boone County

The Virginia Constitutional Convention made changes that addressed the political sources of western discontent

Alexander Campbell supported the Fugitive Slave Law but felt runaway slaves should be provided food, shelter and clothing

The Paw Paw Tunnel opened on the C&O Canal

Reported number of slaves in Jefferson County was 3,960, 27% of the population

Mother Jones and family arrived in Boston

The new edition of A History of the Valley of Virginia was published

Malden had several hotels, a bank and saloons

Trustees offered Marshall Univ. to the Western Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

A reported 21 weeklies and 3 dailies were published in English or German in West Virginia

The C&O Canal was built to Cumberland

There were 200 residents at Federal Hill

Henry Ruffner stopped participating in the emancipation movement in Louisville

The last bridges were made on the Staunton Turnpike

George Summers was a member of the Constitutional Convention

A large seam of bituminous coal was found on Paint Creek

Parts of Fayette County were taken to create Raleigh County

The Beall-Air Mansion was built by Lewis William Washington

Waitman Willey was a delegate to the VirginiaConstitutional Convention

West Virginia had 20,527 slaves

The last spike was driven to complete the B&O Railroad from Baltimore to the Ohio River

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

David Strother contributed 20 illustrations to John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion

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

The Wheeling Intelligencer began

The Potomac River flooded

The Shenandoah River flooded

The African Methodist Episcopal Church aided slaves in Western Virginia after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Gordon Battelle moved to a church in Wheeling

Charles James Faulkner Sr. was appointed minister to France by President Buchanan

Alexander Boteler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig

Boyds moved to 500 block of South Queen Street, Martinsburg

Meshach Browning died

First oil-producing well drilled in Pennsylvania

Construction of stone-filled timber crib dams and timber-crib locks were completed on the Coal River

Claude Crozet became principal of Richmond Academy

Henry Koontz bought a 600-acre farm in Easton, near Morgantown

Weston College was sold at public auction

Granville Davisson Hall moved to Wheeling

Morris Harvey began his service as Fayette County sheriff

George Imboden married Mary Franes Tyree

Martin Robison Delany and 34 others met with John Brown in Canada to develop a provisional constitution for the liberated slaves

Mother Jones began teaching in a convent school in Michigan

George Latham was admitted to the bar

Construction of Weston Hospital began

A library company in Wheeling was chartered by Virginia

Linsly Institute built a new three-story building

Martin Delany wrote Blake: or, The Huts of America

Daniel Lucas was admitted to the practice of law

Michael J. Owens was born

The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike was completed

The Greenbrier Historical Society begun

Frederick Lemon sold the Ritchie Mines

Nathan Scott travelled to Leavenworth Kansas

Traveller took top prizes in the Lewisburg fair

Only 94 of 162 state chartered turnpike companies operated within West Virginia

A new U.S. Custom House was completed at Wheeling

Waitman Willey was defeated as a candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia

The three-story front section of Henderson Hall was completed

Psi Chapter of Beta Theta Pi was established

Archibald Campbell's paper The Intelligencer only paper in Virginia to endorse Abraham Lincoln's presidency

Archibald Campbell's paper The Intelligencer was the only paper in Virginia to endorse Abraham Lincoln's presidency

25 independent coal companies were organized

Bethany College was the only institution of higher education in Western Virginia

Allegheny College opened in Blue Sulphur Springs

Stephen Elkins graduated from University of Missouri

Daniel Farnsworth was elected to abortive term in House of Delegates of General Assembly

Fayette County population at 5,997

Another German newspaper was established in Wheeling

John Hale became the owner of a large salt works

Hancock County reported only 2 slaves in population of 4,445

First railroad in Hancock County received its charter

Nancy Hart and family moved to Roane County

Morris Harvey left his service as Fayette County sheriff

The Ices Ferry Ironworks closed due to lack of adequate transportation and the depletion of iron ore and fuel resources

Reported 28 charcoal iron furnaces had been constructed in West Virginia

Reported four Wheeling ironworks produced cut nails

John Jacob left the University of Missouri to study and practice law

Four short stone piers were placed under Jefferson Rock to stabilize it

Joseph Johnson served as a member of the electoral college

George Latham opened his practice in Grafton

McDowell County had a population of 1,533

The Monongalia Academy, Morgantown Female Academy and Woodburn Female Seminary educated white students

Summersville was incorporated

The Rathbone Well, West Virginia's first major oil well, was drilled.

Reported 174 baptisms at St. John's Chapel, Monroe County

Rezin Davis Shepherd built a building for Shepherdstown's use

Traveller took top prizes at the Lewisburg fair

Census counted 1,428 residents in Tucker County

Virginia chartered six new western turnpikes

Webster County population was 1,555

The first permanent settler of Webster Springs was Polly Arthur

Samuel D. Karnes leased an acre from the Rathbones

The name of the Winchester Female Institute was changed to Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Johnson Camden and his partners quietly sold to Rockefeller's Standard Oil

Marmaduke Dent was admitted to the bar

Stephen Elkins married Hallie Davis Elkins

Aretas Fleming left the House of Delegates

Remains from the Foreman party were transferred to Mount Roase Cemetery

Oil was first struck in Glenville

The Grange had 20,000 lodges and 800,000 members in the country

The Lewisburg Academy reopened after closing during the Civil War

Courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

The Pennsboro & Harrisville Railroad was built

The House of Delegates impeached Treasurer John Burdett

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians started a division in Wheeling

Harriet Jones graduated from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay married Julia Ballintyne

Wheeling became known as the Nail City because of La Belle Ironworks

The legislature was required to met biennially

President Alexander Martin left WVU

A bill providing for better ventilation in the mines had been first introduced in legislature

The Morrow family moved to Pittsburgh

Johnson Newlon Camden joined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust

The Sentinel was founded as the Parkersburg Weekly Sentinel by Robert Hornor.

Reported 14 baptisms at St. John's Chapel

The first band sawmill began operation in West Virginia

Nathan Scott moved to Wheeling

Alexander Wade was elected Monongalia County school superintendent

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute

Cassville was chartered

Ernest T. Weir was born

I.C. White earned a masters degree at WVU

Woodlawn Cemetery began as a private family burial ground

Thomas Anshutz painted The Ironworkers' Noontime

Main building of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum at Weston was completed

Thomas Anshutz painted Ironworkers' Noontime

Raleigh County Index established by Edwin Prince

Joseph Beury and brothers began to buy tracts of coal land

Preston County Brookside Resort was built

Jimmy D. Johnson established water-powered mill at Brush Creek Falls

William Edwin Chilton passed the bar

The International Sunday School Association was organized in West Virginia

U.S Census published the first statistical compilation on West Virginia forests

Two-thirds of West Virginia still covered by old forest

Fairmont State had more students than any normal school

Post No. 1 of Guard Army of the Republic was organized in Martinsburg

Devil Anse Hatfield led the armed party rescuing Johnse Hatfield from the brothers of Rose Anna McCoy

Hinton was incorporated

Reported only 250 people lived in Hollidays Cove

Jedediah Hotchkiss began publishing a monthly magazine, The Virginias: a Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia

Census listed 8 Irish families totaling 43 persons occupying Irish Mountain

Jews lived in most of the developed areas of the state

George Latham was appointed as supervisor of the census for West Virginia's First District

William Leigh began studying under Hugh Newell at Maryland Institute

William MacCorkle was elected prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County

Hu Maxwell graduated from Weston Academy

John McGraw entered the practice of law

Agnes Reeves Greer was born

Orthodox Christians from Russia, Greece and Ottoman Empire began to settle in coalfields of West Virginia

St. Mary Carpatho-Russian Orthodox church was founded in Bluefield

There were 400 sawmills in West Virginia

Nathan Scott was elected to the Wheeling City Council

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Wheeling was erected by the Soldiers Aid Society

West Virginia's first telephone exchange was placed in service in Wheeling

The Funkhouser barn was built in Hardy County

Charles Ward began working full time at his own business

The National Guard was activated for service in areas of labor unrest, specifically to quell a strike of coal miners at Hawks Nest

Construction began at a point on the B&O Railway

The mental hospital at Weston was completed

Emanuel Wilson was elected speaker of the House of Delegates

Booker T. Washington married his first wife, Fannie Smith, at the African Zion Baptist Church

West Virginia contracted with Storer College in educating African-American teachers

Congress gave $5,000 to Smithsonian to conduct excavations relating to prehistoric Mound Builders

George Atkinson wrote After the Moonshiners

West Virginia's first general banking law repealed

Legislature elected Johnson N. Camden to the U.S. Senate

Nathan Goff Jr. served as secretary of navy under President Hayes

The West Virginia Board of Health was established

West Virginia Board of Health was established

George Imboden became the president of the Fayette County Commission

Jacob Beeson Jackson began service as governor

John Jacob was appointed Ohio County circuit judge

The lock and dam on the Elk River was removed

Joseph Long moved to Wheeling

William MacCorkle married Belle Goshorn

Henry Mathews returned to Lewisburg

C.F. Millspaugh received a medical degree from the New York Homeopathic Medical College

The Norfolk & Western Railway was a result of a merger between the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad and Shenandoah Valley Railroad

Daniel Purinton became vice-president and acting president of West Virginia University.

William Rosecrans served in Congress from California

Johann Stifel died

Frederick Douglass spoke on the campus of Storer College

The current Monroe County courthouse was built in Union

Alexander Wade published A Graduating System for Country Schools

West Union was incorporated

Albert White moved to Parkersburg

Emanuel Wilson finished his service in the House of Delegates

Thomas Davis moved with his family to Huntington

B&O operated 1,700 miles of railroad

Joseph Beury and others opened Mill Creek Coal & Coke, first mine in Mercer County

Arthur Boreman organized a relief effort to assist victims of Ohio River flood

Belle Boyd divorced Swainston

W.E.R. Byrne was admitted to the bar

The Kanawha & Michigan Railway was completed on north side of Kanawha River in Charleston

Moses W. Donnally bought the Chronicle

Charleston National Bank founded as a national bank

Sydenham Herford died

William and Tom Anderson stopped running the Easton Roller Mill

William Edwards published another volume in his three-volume work on butterflies, The Butterflies of North America

Stephen Elkins was elected executive chairman of the National Republican Committee

Glenville High School moved into a house

The Hampshire Review was started by C.F. Poland

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians had groups in Rowlesburg, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coal Valley and Charleston

The Quinnimont iron furnace was closed

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay returned to West Virginia

The Lincoln County Feud began when Paris Brumfield killed Boney Lucas

The first multistate gazetteer including West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware appeared

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Tucker County

Mennonites erected their first meetinghouse in West Virginia in Pendleton County

James Miller left as superintendent of Summers County schools

James Miller became Summer County prosecuting attorney

C. F. Millspaugh published the first section of American Medicinal Plants

New Cumberland became the permanent county seat of Hancock County

Earl Oglebay started working in a Cleveland iron ore firm

Large flood occurred on the Ohio

Democrat Emanuel Willis Wilson mounted a populist campaign that challenged monopolies and railroads

Samuel and Violet Bryant came to America from England

The Ohio River Railway was built through Sistersville

The first golf club in America was organized at Oakhurst at White Sulphur Springs

Telephone switchboards were installed at Huntington

Telephone switchboards were installed at Moundsville

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg was extended to Tucker County

The Ohio River Railroad reached Vienna

The first West Virginia Historical Society ceased

I.C. White began working for the U.S. Geological Survey

Emanuel Willis Wilson succeeded into the governorship

The Ohio River Railroad was completed

Large flood occurred on the Ohio

The Ohio River flooded again and brought public protest

Kenova experienced a disastrous flood

The Great Easter Flood of 1913 damaged the company's Marietta plant, prompting its leaders to look for a new location.

A major drought lowered the Monongahela's water lever significantly

The New Dominion and Morgantown Post began sharing plant facilities

The name of Morgantown's New Dominion newspaper was changed to Dominion-News

Reported nearly 2,500 Mormons in West Virginia

Dwight Morrow resigned as ambassador to Mexico

The Bank of Commerce became a national bank

Delf Norona moved to West Virginia

Oak Park in Preston County closed

WVU Experiment Farm was established at Kearneysville

Pinecrest, a TB sanitarium, opened in Beckley

Leonard Riggleman was elected vice president of Morris Harvey College, now University of Charleston

William A. MacCorkle left his Charleston mansion, Sunrise, to the Salvation Army

The Seneca Caverns were opened to the public

Shepherd College was designated as a four-year teachers college

The West Virginia Midland Railroad closed

The first improved road was built into the southern half of Smoke Hole

Warner Brothers took over the Smoot Theater in Parkersburg

The Sistersville and Middlebourne streetcar line ceased operation

Hinton's population was 6,654

Summers County population was 20,468

Sweet Springs went into receivership

Thurmond population peaked at 462

A severe drought on the Tygart Valley River nearly shut down navigation on Monongahela

Ward Engineering built the Scott

Walter Fredericks sold WCHS

Welch population was at 5,376

There were 22 basketball teams in the WVAU tournament

The Sutton suspension bridge closed for traffic

Wyoming County population was 20,926

Commercial air service to Charleston started

Lenna Yost directed the Women's Division of the National Republican Party

The Tavern at Youghiogheny Forest Colony was built

Justice Chambers enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Hack Wilson hit a National League record 56 home runs and knocked in 191 runs, a Major League Baseball record that still stands today

The Wheeling Jamboree opened at the Capitol Music Hall before a live audience

A devastating flood hit New Martinsville

Potomac River at Harpers Ferry crested at a record 36.50 feet, 15 feet above flood level, destroying last Bollman spans

Potomac River at Paw Paw crested at a record 54 feet, 29 feet above flood stage

Following a winter thaw, the Ohio River crested at a record 20 feet above flood stage at Wheeling

At Parkersburg, the Ohio River crested at 55.4 feet, 19.4 feet above flood stage

Number of farms in West Virginia began dropping

West Virginia Baptist Historical Society formed

Tony Boyle became president of UMWA District 27

Extensive remodeling and expansion of the Cabell County courthouse was completed

Calhoun County population peaked at 12,455

First building was completed at Camp Washington-Carver

Flip left the country music trio group of "Cap, Andy, and Flip"

Clay County population peaked at 15,206

Rose Cousins learned how to fly

Easton Roller Mill, near Morgantown, was closed

W.E.R. Byrne's Tale of the Elk was published

Population of Gilmer County peaked

Construction began for Grandview Park

G. D. McNeill wrote The Last Forest, whose main character was inspired by Edden Hammons

Electric power production increased by 2,000 percent

Matthew M. Neely won the Democratic nomination for governor while still serving the U.S. Senate

Tom Kromer gave up writing

Logan's population peaked at 5,166

Reported 11,000 miners in Logan County

Martinsburg had four movie houses

Bumgardner Hall was built at Beckley College (now Mountain State University)

DuPont put four million pairs of nylon stockings on sale nationally

Molly O'Day's brothers moved to Beckley

Population of Ohio County peaked at 73,115

It was decided to establish a state forest in the Panther Creek area.

Parsons population was 2,077.

Pendleton County population peaked at 10,884.

Ida Reed published her last book, Songs of the Hills

A demonstration site for farm electrification was built at the Jackson's Mill state 4-H camp

The Hardy County Light and Power Association served 142 members

Hubert Skidmore published Hill Doctor

Eleanor Steber won the Metropolitan Opera radio auditions

Taylor County population peaked at 19,919

The Tomlinson Run dam was built by the federal Works Progress Administration

Wm. Trevey left glass plate negatives in his Glen Jean studio

Vienna had five glass factories, a canning company and a silk mill

Webster County population peaked at 18,080

Weirton population was 18,000

The West Virginia Historical Society was formed

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

The West Virginia Conservation Bulletin began quarterly publication with a newspaper format

Coonskin Ridge was selected for location of the Charleston airport

The Gravens' cabin, located at the Youghiogheny Forest Colony, was designed by Thomas Hood

Justice Chambers was called to active duty.

Large flood occurred on the Ohio

Ceredo had 1,675 residents

Charleston population fell to 53,421

Clay Foundation assets at $67 million

Reported 44 chapters of the state society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Northern Panhandle and southeastern part of the state had highest median ages

Eastern Panhandle and southwestern part of the state had lowest median ages

Doddridge population reached 7,403

Dunbar had a population of 8,154

Charleston ranked 167th out of 318 Metropolitan Statistical Areas

West Virginia's official poverty rate sat at 17.9%

Elizabeth's population was 994

Fairmont had population of 19,097

People 65+ represented 15.3% of population in West Virginia

Follansbee's population reported at 3,115

Forestlands of West Virginia reported at 78% of states' area

Franklin population reported at 797

Grafton population stood at 2,489

Population of Grant County rose to 11,299

Greenbrier County had a population of 34,453 people

Reported population of 32,667 in Hancock County

Hardy County reported a population of 12,669

Harpers Ferry was reported with a population of 307

Harrisville held a population of 1,842

The U.S. Census reported the state's population at 1,808,350

The population of Hurricane was reported at 5,222

Census reported 3,606 Indians living in West Virginia

Jackson County's population was 28,000

Ripley's population stood at 3,263

Ravenswood's population stood at 4,301

Kanawha County population was the largest in the state at 200,073

Kenova population remained the largest in Wayne County at 3,485

Keyser's population was 5,303

Keystone's population had fallen to 453

City of Logan population was 1,630

Logan County population reported at 37,710

Population of Madison was 2,677

Mannington population was 2,124

Reported 142,728 manufactured homes in West Virginia

West Virginia had the third-highest home-ownership rates in the U.S. at 75.2%

Marion County population stood at 56,598

Population of Marlinton was 1,204

Marshall County's population was 35,519

Martinsburg population was 75,905

The population of Mason county was 25,957

Census reported African-Americans were 11.9% of McDowell's population

Population of McDowell County was 27,329

West Virginia had the country's highest median age at 38.9 years

Mercer County population was 62,980

Reported 125,336 members of 1,341 United Methodist churches in West Virginia

Middlebourne's population was 870

Milton's population was 2,206

Monongalia County had a population of 81,866

Monroe county had a population of 14,583

Morgan County had a population of 14,943

Morgantown population was 26,809

Moundsville had a population of 9,978

Population of New Cumberland was 1,099

Nicholas County had a population of 26,562

Census reports 141,060 people living in the Northern Panhandle

Oak Hill population was 7,589

Population of Ohio County was 47,427

Eleven Orthodox Christian churches were listed in a church survey with 4,310 adherents

Paden City's population was 2,860

Parkersburg's population was 33,099

The population of Paw Paw was 524

Franklin had 797 residents

The population of Petersburg was 2,423

The population of Philippi was 2,870

Piedmont's population was 1,014

The population of Pineville was 715

The population of Pleasants County was 7,514

The population of Pocahontas County was 9,131

Richwood had a population of 2,477

Ritchie County's population was 10,343

Roane County population was 15,446

Reported 100,000 Catholics in West Virginia

Romney had a population of 1,940

The population of St. Albans was 11,567

St. Marys population was at 2,017

Reported 3,060 second homes in Pocahontas County

Shinnston's population was 2,295

South Charleston had a population of 13,390

Spencer had a population of 2,352

Sternwheel Regatta festivities were scaled back to an extended weekend

Hinton's population was 2,880

Summersville population was 3,294

Sutton had a population 1,011

Taylor County population was 16,089

Tucker County population was 7,321

Union had a population of 548

Upshur County population was 23,404

Vienna had a population of 10.861

Wayne had a population of 1,105

Wayne County population was 42, 903

Webster County population was 9,719

Webster Springs had a population of 808

Weirton population was 20,411

Welch population was 2,683

Wellsburg population was 2,891

West Union had a population of 806

Weston's population was 4,317

Westover had a population of 3,941

Wetzel County had a population of 17,693

Population of White Sulphur Springs was 2,315

Williamson population was 3,414

Winfield population was 1,858

Wirt County had a population of 5,873

Wood County had a population of 87,986