Salt Industry

Jesse Bennet, wife, and daughter moved to Mason County

Buffington purchased the island, now Buffington Island

Elisha Brooks built the first salt furnace in the Charleston area

Book issued in Shepherdstown by P. Rootes and C. Blagrove

William Clendenin moved his family to Mason County

George Clendenin died in Marietta, Ohio

Salt furnaces in Kanawha County began

Jesse Bennet and family moved to Point Pleasant

Patrick Gass family located in Brooke County

The General Assembly created Brooke County from northern Ohio County

William Parson and Samuel Tanner settled in the Jackson County area

John J. Allen was born

Simon Kenton lost his wife in a fire

The Impartial Observer was founded in Shepherdstown

Pleasants County saw its first permanent settlers.

Anne Newport married William Royall

Lewis Ruffner was born

Walter Newman built a tavern at Point Pleasant

The William Little family settled Littleton

Wheeling became the county seat of Ohio County

Oceana was established

First mentioned in Lewis Summers journals

Robert Clendenin died in Ohio

Henry Harvey graduated from University of Pennsylvania

Dr. John McElhenney moved to Lewisburg

Mary Payne died

Joseph and David Ruffner successfully drilled for brine and erected the first salt furnaces, the Salines

The Committee on Missions of the Synod of Virginia sent John McElhenney as a Presbyterian evangelist in Greenbrier and Monroe counties

James Swan was imprisoned for debt in France

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin outline a national transportation plan

John Tyler became governor of Virginia

Lewis Wetzel died at Rosetta, near Natchez

Alexander Campbell migrated to America

Thomas Campbell drafted The Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington

Claude Crozet began serving Napoleons military in Germany and Holland

Samuel Jackson established Jackson's Ironworks at Ices Ferry

John George Jackson had an encounter with North Carolina Congressman Joseph Pierson that ended in a duel

The Old State Road received legislative authorization to collect tolls for maintenance

The Union Baptist Church was founded in Milton

The Literary Fund was established by the General Assembly

The first settlers arrived in Roane County

Henry Ruffner began studies at Lewisburg Academy

John D. Sutton settled at Granny's Creek, now Sutton

James Madison became president

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

John Marshall led a 20 man survey party mapping the route across West Virginia between the James and Ohio Rivers

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)

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