Ravenswood

Francis Asbury is part of the Methodist movement in England

Botetourt County formed from southern half of Augusta

John Corbly settled in the Morgantown area

John Sutton formed the Simpson Creek Baptist Church in Harrison County

Adam Stephen purchased 255 acres of land in present Berkeley County and laid out Martinsburg

Lord Dunmore was appointed governor of New York

William Stewart came from Ireland to the Forks of Cheat in present Monongalia County

Col. George Washington and Dr. James Craik claimed land in the Ohio watershed on their canoe trip

Killbuck died at the Delaware village in present Coshocton, Ohio

While hunting, Kyashuta encounters George Washington on his canoe trip

The upper watershed of the Little Kanawha was explored by John Hacker

Chief Logan moved his family to the Ohio Valley

George Washington surveyed Ohio River bottomlands from Point Pleasant to Letart

Samuel McColloch emigrated from the South Branch of the Potomac to Wheeling

A survey party led by George Washington visited the present Point Pleasant area in Mason County

Jesse Hughes became the first European to enter Roane County

John Stuart built the first mill in Greenbrier County

Joseph Tomlinson and brother Samuel Tomlinson settled in the Ohio Valley frontier

The Treaty of Lochaber secured for Britain any lands in the Western Virginia region not covered by the Treaty of Hard Labor

George Washington wrote the first written accounts of the forests of present West Virginia

A permanent settlement was made in the Buckhannon Valley

A log house was built by James Byrnside in Union

Samuel Washington built his house Harewood in present Jefferson County

Union forces defeated John Morgan's cavalry at Bluffington Island near Ravenswood

Park was built on the upper end of Blennerhassett Island

Railroad line was built through the area of New Cumberland by Pennsylvania Railroad

William Edwin Chilton ran unsuccessfully for state senate

Aretas Fleming's fortunes were joined with U.S. Sen. Johnson Newlon Camden

Millard F. Giesey opened his own architecture office in Wheeling

John P. Hale produced book, Trans-Allegheny Pioneers

John P. Hale produced book, Trans-Allegheny Pioneers

A "substantial brick jail" was added to the courthouse in Hamlin

A referendum was unsuccessfully proposed to make Ravenswood the new county seat of Jackson County

Harriet Jones opened a private practice in Wheeling

Marlin's Bottom changed its name to Marlinton

John McGraw was appointed collector of internal revenue for West Virginia by President Cleveland

A branch of the B&O reached Morgantown

A permanent Mormon presence in West Virginia began with the creation of the West Virginia Conference

The first public high school for blacks, Sumner High, was established in Parkersburg.

A referendum confirmed Ripley as county seat of Jackson County

Anne Spence and mother moved to Bramwell

Telephone switchboards were installed at Martinsburg

A fire burned much of the Valley Falls area

Clarence W. Watson graduated from Fairmont State Normal School

James O. Watson and Aretas B. Fleming started the Montana mine

Henry Everett Engle copyrighted the music to "The West Virginia Hills"

The drilling of the first gas well in Hundred

Frank Reeves was born in Fairmont

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was Awarded the Newbery Medal for Shiloh

Eldora Nuzum retired from the Elkins Inter-Mountain

The North Central Association approved baccalaureate degrees in business administration, elementary education, liberal studies, and psychology at Ohio Valley University

Henry Payne was runner-up for the Mencken Award

Charlotte Pritt left the state Senate

Dyke Raese was inducted into the WVU Hall of Fame

Richard Freeland re-entered the recording business when he started Freeland Records

Otis Rice became vice president of the West Virginia Historical Education Foundation

Jay Rockefeller successfully backed the Coal Act to ensure continued funding of the UMWA health insurance

Cynthia Rylant was awarded the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for children's fiction for Missing May

Fred Schaus was named to the WVU Hall of Fame