Constitution of 1830

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

Kentucky was created as a county of Virginia

An Apology for Christianity was published in response to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

William Crawford commissioned colonel

Lord Dunmore returned to England

Virginia abolished quitrents and excepted Fairfax's proprietary

Fort Randolph was constructed at Point Pleasant under Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

Daniel Greathouse died of measles

John Holliday began operating a trading post at Hollidays Cove

Early explorer Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Mad Anthony Wayne joined the continental army

The Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called Westsylvania

An new effort to form a colony like Vandalia began

Fort Henry was renamed for Governor Patrick Henry

Swiss Immigrant David Boudon became an artist in Wheeling

Buckhannon was established

John George Jackson was a promoter of the Staunton Convention

Dr. James Putney was born in Malden

Capt. Henry Shreve constructed his steamboat Washington from the timbers of Fort Henry, Wheeling

The Staunton Convention failed to meet western demands

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

Noah Ludlow bought a 25-foot flatboat

The General Assembly passed an act to establish an Internal Improvement Fund and Board of Public Works

Charlestown became Wellsburg

Harman Blennerhassett returned impoverished to England

John Gallaher published The Ladies' Garland

The Old State Road ran from Lewisburg to Montgomery's ferry

Joseph Doddridge wrote Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars

Congress assigned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the responsibility of maintaining year-round navigation on America's inland rivers

Flood waters severely damaged the lock and dam systems on the West Fork

A private Virginia company upgraded the Midland Trail into the James River & Kanawha Turnpike

Anne Royall lost her inheritance to relatives and was refused pension as widow of Revolutionary War veteran

John Taylor died

Philip Doddridge was selected to represent Western Virginia at the Constitutional Convention 1829-1830

The Constitutional Convention convened in Richmond