John Marshall

William Beauchamp Sr was the earliest settlers in the Wirt County area

Daniel Boone and his family moved to Missouri

Meshach Browning married Mary McMullen

Charles Washington died and was buried at Happy Retreat

The U.S. Armory and Arsenal was established at Harpers Ferry

The McComas family were the first whites to settle in Lincoln County

The Little Kanawha Circuit of Methodists was formed

The first recorded school was established in Moundsville

The Berkeley Intelligencer was founded in Martinsburg

Vienna failed in trying to become county seat of Wood County

Wood County was formed and Newport was made the county seat

William Richmond acquired a ten-acre tract on the New River at Sandstone Falls

John Stuart wrote Memoir of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences

There were about 16 churches in present West Virginia

The Greenbrier Association of Baptists established

John Beckley wrote a Jefferson campaign biography

Ephraim and Anna Musick Hatfield moved their family from Russell County, Virginia to the Tug Valley

Jesse Hughes returned to West Virginia

John George Jackson married Mary Payne

The site of Jackson's Mill was first settled by Edward Jackson

Old State Road was opened to the Ohio River

Joseph Johnson traveled to Winchester, Virginia

George Gregg built a gristmill and sawmill on the Jug of Middle Island Creek

The Hatfields settled in Lincoln County

The first whites settled in Mingo County as farmers

Newport was given a charter

Nicholas Harvey acquired the site of Red Sulpher Springs

John Bunnell built a cabin in Pennsboro

St. Albans was first settled as Coalsmouth

Sampson Sanders settled in Cabell County

Permanent settlement on the Tug Fork began

Henry Jolley established a ferry across the Ohio River at Sistersville

Union was established by General Assembly to be county seat for Monroe County

Fort Gay was the first permanent settlement in Wayne County

The West Fork River was declared a navigable public highway

Isaac Williams was authorized to operate a ferry to carry traffic to the Ohio Shore

Barney McGraw planted the first apple orchard in the Little Kanawha Valley

James Wood left office as governor of Virginia

Charles Town became the county seat of Jefferson County

Bryan Fairfax became one of first 14 justices of the peace in Jefferson County

John Jackson died

Joseph Johnson and family settled in Harrison County

William W. Brumfield settled in Lincoln County at Big Ugly Creek

John Tackett settled in Lincoln County

The first iron furnace west of the Allegheny Mountains was acquired by Peter Tarr and James Rankin

Dick Pointer was purchased and freed

The shape-note method for teaching singing first published in The Easy Instructor: A New Method of teaching Sacred Harmony in Philadelphia

A munitions plant began production at Harpers Ferry

Gen. Elisha Boyd built the Martinsburg mansion Boydsville

Sinnett Triplett first known white man to occupy present Clay County

The first gristmill in Gilmer County was built in Glenville

Wilson Cary Nicholas purchased Green Bottom and established an overseer slave plantation

The Greenbrier College for Women was founded as the Lewisburg Academy by Dr. John McElhenney

Industrial development, especially salt and iron, was stimulated by the War of 1812

The Ices Ferry Ironworks supplied iron for shot used in the Battle of New Orleans and shipped nails and plates for Admiral Perry's Lake Erie squadron

The first Western Virginia rolling mill was in operation at Ices Ferry Ironworks

Legislature appointed John George Jackson a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the war

John George Jackson emerged as one of the foremost businessmen of the upper Monongahela Valley

Joseph Johnson became captain of the Harrison Riflemen

Aaron Stockton settled at Kanawha Falls

The Kanawha Valley salt industry boomed

Hawks Nest was named Marshall's Pillars

Justice Joseph Story delivered the decision to reverse Virginia Court of Appeals in the David Hunter case after John Marshall recused himself from the case

Robert Gorrell laid out town lots at present Middlebourne

John Marshall boated the New River to asses its navigation potential

Organ Cave was mined for saltpeter to manufacture gunpowder

Spencer was first settled by the Samuel Tanner and Jonathan Wolfe families

Anne Royall moved to Charleston after death of Wm. Royall

Henry Ruffner attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)

John George Jackson began his salt works on the West Fork

Salt production quadrupled on 52 furnaces to reach one million bushels

Robert Simmons fought in the War of 1812

The "Big Cave" on Cave Mountain was a source of saltpeter for the production of gunpowder

Samuel Tanner and Jonathan Wolfe moved into a cave near present Spencer Middle School

Western Virginia militias took parts in the Northwest Campaign