Hampshire County

Buckongahelas was born

Kyashuta was born in New York

Chief Logan was born in Pennsylvania

Fairfax established an office to sell land

Washington surveying team noted one of the earliest schools in Moorefield area

Moravian missionary reported the amount of Germans in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties

Levi Shinn was born

George Washington described the Trough on the South Branch in his journal

Thomas Walker explored Virginia's New River Valley

Thomas Beall was born

Governor Dinwiddie set aside 200,000 acres of land for men who served in the French & Indian War

Alexander Clendenin was born in Augusta County

William Fairfax commanded the Alexandria volunteers against the French and Indians in the Shenandoah valley

Kyashuta directed war efforts against the settlers during the French & Indian War

The Loyal Company had settled about 200 families on its lands

Thomas Walker began serving as commissary general in the French & Indian War

Germans incorporated the city of Mecklenburg (Shepherdstown)

Joseph Tomlinson discovered the Grave Creek Mound

The massacre of Captain Bull's band of Delaware Indians by frontiersmen at Bulltown Historic Area

Murder of Adam Stroud's family

Raid on Bull's village

Earliest white settlement made by Dunkards near Kingwood

William Crawford surveyed and registered land in present West Virginia for George Washington

Lord Dunmore was named governor of Virginia

Isaac Cox built a log house in the Follansbee area

The Tygart Valley was resettled

Horatio Gates returned to America

The John Wetzel family settled along Wheeling Creek in the Northern Panhandle

Nutter's Fort was built on Elk Creek in Harrison County

Jesse Hughes discovered a major tributary to the Little Kanawha River

Wellsburg was settled

Settlers had claimed most of the prime valley lands in Randolph County.

The first white explored the Wirt County area

Arbuckle's Fort was occupied by another militia company

Settlers reported hearing gunshots near Arbuckle's Fort

Fort Henry was enlarged to enclose a half acre

Isaac Ballengee received a land grant in the area of Hinton

James Conner made extensive exploration of the area of Hurricane after receiving land grants from Virginia

Ulrich Conrad's son inherited the McCoy's mill before handing it off the William McCoy

The Seneca allied themselves with the British

The Graham house was attacked by Shawnee raiders from the Ohio Valley

Gov. Cabell bought 4,400 acres of land inCabell County

Clarksburg chosen as site of first federal court west of Alleghenies

President James Monroe appointed John George Jackson a federal judge

The first steamboat tried to get up over Red House Shoals

Western commerce was crushed by the Panic

The Lewis County seat became Weston

Henry Ruffner organized two Presbyterian congregations from which came Kanawha Salines in Malden and the Kanawha Church of Charleston

Oil was produced by George Lemon in Wirt County

Jonas Smith recorded the first plat of the town

The Robert Thompson was the first steamboat to attempt to get to Charleston

The Literary Society was founded

Henry Ruffner began teaching ancient languages at Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

Richard Henry Lee Washington died

Thomas Beall died

Weston became the permanent name of the town

WVU opened its doors

Celebration staged in Parkersburg after ratification of the 15th Amendment

Railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington located the western terminus of Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in present Huntington

Cheat River declared a public highway

Claymont Court mansion (Jefferson County) was advertised for sale by Bushrod Corbin Washington's grandson

Henry Gassaway Davis helped lead the Democrats in for their control over the state

Marmaduke Dent received B.A from WVU

Joseph Diss Debar produced The West Virginia Hand-Book and Immigrant's Guide

Alexander Donaghho came to Parkersburg

Fayetteville population jumped to 6,647

Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler began his map-making trips

Camp Straton United Confederate Veterans began controlling Logan County polices

German immigration increased during the Franco-Prussian War

John Hale started the first steam ferry at Charleston

John Hale was a leader in having the state capital moved to Charleston

The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind was established in Romney

John Henry began working as a steel driver during the construction of the Big Bend (Great Bend) Tunnel

The state was reported to have 2,270 schools

Investment in manufacturing began increasing

Immigrants from Switzerland settled in the area of Holly River

George Imboden moved to Fayette County

Jacob Jackson became Wood County's prosecuting attorney

A proposed waterway between Tidewater Virginia and Rocky Mountains was proposed to Congress by Waitman T. Willey

The capital was moved from Wheeling to Charleston

Henry Clay Dickinson became president of Kanawha Valley Bank

James Kay arrived in Charleston

John Kenna was admitted to the bar

Crosscut saws replaced the ax as the preferred tool for felling trees

Marshall College added a new brick addition at the west end of the existing building

John Nuttall bought coal lands on New River

The Flick Amendment was introduced

Petersburg became the county seat of Grant County

Henry Ragland moved to Wayne County.

Alexander Reynolds began serving in Egypt

Literary Hall was built by the Literary Society in Romney

Cecil Clay of Philadelphia began timber purchases in Greenbrier Valley

William Stevenson was defeated for second term as governor

There were 178 tanneries in West Virginia

The Daily Sentinel became the Taylor County newspaper

The town of Volcano was founded

Wayne County population was at 7,852

WesBanco was founded as German Bank

Legislature voted for additional buildings at Weston State Hospital

The Potomac River flooded

The Shenandoah River flooded