Richard Vincent Whelan

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

Wheeling was declared an inland port of entry

Waitman Willey graduated from Madison College in Pennsylvania

There were four associations of Baptist churches in West Virginia

Alfred Beckley gained a clear title to 56,679 acres in Raleigh County

William Jenkins built the Green Bottom mansion

The Greenbrier County courthouse was built in Lewisburg

William Barton Roger conducted a geological survey of Virginia

The James River Company reorganized as a stock company

The McCoy mill was acquired by the nephew of Gen. William McCoy, William McCoy

John Myers is believed to have died

Francis Pierpont entered Allegheny College

There were 15 sawmills in West Virginia

Johann Ludwig established the J. L. Stifel & Sons textile manufacturing

Settlers found the skeletons of William Strange and his dog undisturbed under a sycamore tree

The village of Suttonville (present Sutton) was laid out

The Bower cabin was built

The Universalist Meeting House in Marshall County was built

D.C. Topping established the Virginia Mission in Cabell County of the United Brethren

Peter Van Winkle moved to Parkersburg

Laura Jackson was sent to live with her uncle near Parkersburg

The first class at Bethany College included international students

William Tompkins struck large flow of gas while drilling a salt well a short distance above Burning Springs

Henry Ruffner gathered with other western Virginians at a convention in Clarksburg and allied for a system of free public schools

Alexander Campbell argued for public education at the education convention in Clarksburg

Scarcity of deer first noted in present West Virginia

John Hale attended Mercer Academy in Charleston

The Northwestern Academy was established

Work commenced on the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

The Jackson family gristmill was constructed at Jackson's Mill

Nathaniel Kuykendall operated a stagecoach and mail delivery service on the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike

Robert Simmons settled in Parkersburg

The Staunton Turnpike was placed under control of the Board of Public Works

Portion of the Staunton Turnpike were open to wagon travel

George Summers was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Elizabeth Tomlinson died

Charles Ward was born

John Thornton Augustine Washington died

James O. Watson married Matilda Lamb

Charles Ellet Jr was appointed chief engineer of the Fairmont Bridge

Waitman Willey was elected clerk of the Monongalia County Court

Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Wheeling

Alexander Boteler ran unsuccessfully for Congress

Col. George Imboden bought the house known as Contentment in Ansted

Rebecca Davis wrote John Andross

William Dawson was elected chairman of the Preston County Republican committee

Alexander Donaghho started a pottery operation

Congress ordered a survey of the Guyandotte River

The first courthouse was replaced in Ritchie County

William Harvey began practicing law in Huntington

Hinton was laid out and lots sold

Investors erected a coke-fueled blast furnace along the C&O railway

William C. Kelly began making axes in Kentucky

John Birch became principal of Linsly School

Steamboats began travel from Parkersburg upriver to Palestine (Wirt County) on the Little Kanawha

The U.S. Congress authorized a survey of the Big Sandy and Tug and Levisa forks to determine the feasibility of building locks and dams

Henry Clay Ragland arrived in Logan

The town of Hurricane was established as Hurricane station after the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad was completed.

Henry Ragland moved to Logan.

Shepherd University had 160 students

A group of shotgun cottages were built for workers of the Central Glass Company and the Wheeling & Elm Grove Railroad

Alexander Wade implemented the a plan for the rural elementary education

James O. Watson's coal mine partnership with Francis H. Pierpont was dissolved

The West Virginia Baptist Association was formed

The Education Association's first recorded constitution and bylaws were drafted and adopted

Four locks and dams were completed by the Little Kanawha Navigation Company

The first public high school diplomas issued in the state were awarded to Parkersburg High School graduates

City of Huntington purchased the property from the Central Land Company, owned by Collis P. Huntington