Clarksburg Education Convention

Monroe County opened free school at Sinks Grove

Alexander Clendenin died

Charles Faulkner married Mary W. Boyd

John Floyd graduated from South Carolina College

Felix Grundy was appointed to the U.S. Senate

The South Branch Intelligencer was founded

The Virginia Constitutional Convention failed to meet western demands

The Eclectic Observer was founded in Wheeling

Jesse Hughes died at Turkey Run

Completion of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike to the Ohio River was authorized by the General Assembly

Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class from West Point

William Fletcher received 20 acres of land in Welch

The state of Virginia began blasting and excavating shoals in the Kanawha River including the Red House shoal.

Phillip R. Thompson laid out the town of Phillipi

James Stephenson married Agnes Miller Boreman

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

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

Wheeling was incorporated as a city

The rear wing of Henderson Hall was built

Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin H. Davis documented Salt Rock petroglyphs

Heirs of Matthias Bruen of New York City inherited 200,000 acres of land

The Point Pleasant lead plate left by Celeron was found by boy playing on riverbank

Joseph Diss Debar moved to Parkersburg

Legislation authorized school commissioners to use local taxes to supplement state aid for the poor

William Edwards traveled to the Amazon River

Salt production in the Kanawha Valley peaked at 3,244,786 bushels

Weston's first newspaper began publishing

Joseph Lightburn enlisted in the army as a private

Alexander Martin served as principal of Kingwood Academy in Preston County

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis conducted a survey of prehistoric mounds in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys

New Martinsville became the county seat of Wetzel County

Jesse Reno graduated from West Point.

The Christian Minstrel was published introducing a second system using seven shapes to teach singing

Churches in Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, and Gilmer counties merged with those in Braxton County to form the Lewis or Buckhannon Circuit of the United Brethren

The administration building at the School for Deaf and Blind was built

Third Averell raid, the Salem Raid, resulting in partial destruction of Virginia & Tennessee Railroad