National Road

John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress

Patrick Gass was sent to Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory

Hamlin was first settled by David Stephenson

Mathias and Lydia Harman were the firsts whites to settle in McDowell County

Sampson Sanders built his inheritance into the largest land holding in Cabell County

Charles Wells founded Wells Landing (now Sistersville)

President Jefferson ordered the arrests of Aaron Burr and Harman Blennerhassett for treason

Margaret Blennerhassett was forced to flee from her home after the Burr conspiracy

Felix Grundy was appointed to the Kentucky Supreme Court

The first schoolhouse was built in the Jackson County area

Lutheranism reached the Ohio River with the Roush family and Reverend Paul Henkel

John McLure relocated to Wheeling from Pennsylvania

Wheeling was chartered as a town

Alexander Campbell settled at present Bethany

Felix Grundy was elected to Congress

Joseph Johnson was appointed a constable

The New Orleans,the first steamboat on the inland rivers, was launched on the Ohio River at Pittsburgh

Bens Run earthworks described in the journal of Thom Nuttall

Money was earmarked to pay tuition for poor white children to attend schools

Commercial coal mining began

The National Road, the first major highway in the region, was completed to Wheeling

James Madison Jackson was born

Jonathan Jackson and wife Julia Neale moved to Clarksburg

Bishop James Madison's maps appeared

The ferry to present Winfield was established

The Runnion family arrived in Spencer

George Summers moved to Charleston to live with Lewis Summers

John Gallaher established the Harpers Ferry Free Press

James Stephenson and Henry Logan opened a tanyard in Parkersburg

Fairfax's plantation, Shannon Hill, was sold by daughter to G. W. Hammond

James River & Kanawha Turnpike was completed

William H. Cabell sold Green Bottom and its slaves to Capt. William Jenkins

The Staunton Convention failed to meet western demands

Elizabeth Cummins Jackson died

James Monroe Jackson was born

City of Bolivar was established

Robert E. Lee entered West Point

Capt. Henry Shreve replaced the first Washington with the George Washington

Cedar Lawn was built by John Thornton Augustine Washington

Isaiah Welch was born in Doddridge County