St. George’s Chapel

Francis Asbury volunteered to come to America

Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett was born in England

John Yeager, George Strader and Simon Kenton camped near mouth of Elk River in what would become the city of Charleston

Charles Clendenin settled in the Greenbrier Valley

George Clendenin's family settled in the Greenbrier Valley

Harmon Greathouse arrived in present Hancock County

Jesse Hughes married Grace Tanner

William Crawford made a survey for Washington in the Jackson County area

Simon Kenton began hunting and trapping in the Kanawha Valley

Joseph, Samuel, and James Tomlinson established the first settlement at what is now Moundsville

Buckongahelas signed the Fort Wayne Treaty

Ferries operated across both Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers

Capt. Meriwether Lewis accepted Patrick Gass as a volunteer for expedition

John George Jackson elected to Congress from the First District of Virginia

The Old State Road underwent major repairs

Residents established the first school of Morgantown

Joseph Ruffner died

Work began on the West Virginia Penitentiary