Ohio River

Batts and Fallam exploration used in French & Indian War treaty negotiations to lay claim for England to the Ohio Valley

Robert Clendenin was injured in a battle with the Shawnee

The Treaty of Paris ended French & Indian War

Pontiac's Rebellion followed French & Indian War

Cornstalk raided Greenbrier settlements during Pontiac's War

The French withdrew from North America leaving Ohio a boundary between white and Indian territory

John Semple constructed West Virginia's first blast furnace

Kyashuta directed war efforts against settlers in Pontiac's Rebellion

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrived in America from England

The Senecas fought in Pontiac's Rebellion

New settlements in Summers County were destroyed during Pontiac's Rebellion

Treaty of Paris ended French and Indian War

William Crawford directed the construction of Fort Fincastle (Fort Henry)

Ferdinando Fairfax was born in Virginia

Isaac Cox transferred his land to John Decker

Fort Henry at Wheeling was constructed

Hurricane Creek received its name by a group of surveyors

William Morris and others settled at Cedar Grove in Kanawha County

Simon Kenton served as a frontier scout in the Muskingum War

The county jail of Martinsburg was completed

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was born

Paint Creek was named

Pricketts Fort was built at the confluence of Pricketts Creek and the Monongahela River by Capt. Jacob Prickett

The Lewis Trail became an early route over Sewell Mountain

The Boggs family settled near Wheeling

Union was settled by James Alexander

Thomas Walker was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs

Thomas Walker was a member of the Revolutionary Conventions

Alexander Campbell settled at present Bethany

Felix Grundy was elected to Congress

Joseph Johnson was appointed a constable

Road crews started in Maryland on the National Road

"Ruffner Pamphlet" published in Kanawha County

Gordon Battelle was ordained a Methodist minister

John Carlile was elected to the Virginia Senate

William Edwards was admitted to the New York bar

William Edwards published A Voyage on the River Amazon

John Floyd was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates

The Presbyterian Church was organized in Greenville

The Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike was completed

Cummins Jackson left Jackson's Mill to search for gold in CA

Joseph Johnson was elected again to the House of Delegates

Citizens of Parkersburg, Elizabeth, and Glenville organized the Little Kanawha Navigation Company

Alexander Martin graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania

Mining began in West Columbia, Mason County

The Staunton to Parkersburg Turnpike was completed

Pocahontas County was formed

A group of Dutch immigrants arrived in Pocahontas County

Samuel Price was again elected to the Virginia legislature as a Whig from Greenbrier Count.

Henry Ruffner published the Address to the People of West Virginia anti-slavery pamphlet

The first Stone & Thomas Department Store opened in Wheeling

The first permanent United Brethren church was built in Sand Hill

The Buckhannon Male and Female Academy was established

A grist mill was built at Valley Falls by Bradshaw and William Whitescarver

Charles Ellet Jr. secured contracts for the Wheeling and Niagara Falls suspension bridges

Two Dutch families settled near the headwaters of the Williams River

Two turnpikes were completed in Wood County

A flood destroyed Bloch Brothers store in Wheeling

Ohio River flooded and swept away many homes

Ohio River flooded at Huntington

B&O operated 1,700 miles of railroad

Joseph Beury and others opened Mill Creek Coal & Coke, first mine in Mercer County

Arthur Boreman organized a relief effort to assist victims of Ohio River flood

Belle Boyd divorced Swainston

W.E.R. Byrne was admitted to the bar

The Kanawha & Michigan Railway was completed on north side of Kanawha River in Charleston

Moses W. Donnally bought the Chronicle

Charleston National Bank founded as a national bank

Sydenham Herford died

William and Tom Anderson stopped running the Easton Roller Mill

William Edwards published another volume in his three-volume work on butterflies, The Butterflies of North America

Stephen Elkins was elected executive chairman of the National Republican Committee

Glenville High School moved into a house

The Hampshire Review was started by C.F. Poland

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians had groups in Rowlesburg, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coal Valley and Charleston

The Quinnimont iron furnace was closed

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay returned to West Virginia

The Lincoln County Feud began when Paris Brumfield killed Boney Lucas

The first multistate gazetteer including West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware appeared

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Tucker County

Mennonites erected their first meetinghouse in West Virginia in Pendleton County

James Miller left as superintendent of Summers County schools

James Miller became Summer County prosecuting attorney

C. F. Millspaugh published the first section of American Medicinal Plants

New Cumberland became the permanent county seat of Hancock County

Earl Oglebay started working in a Cleveland iron ore firm

Democrat Emanuel Willis Wilson mounted a populist campaign that challenged monopolies and railroads

Samuel and Violet Bryant came to America from England

The Ohio River Railway was built through Sistersville

The first golf club in America was organized at Oakhurst at White Sulphur Springs

Telephone switchboards were installed at Huntington

Telephone switchboards were installed at Moundsville

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg was extended to Tucker County

The Ohio River Railroad reached Vienna

The first West Virginia Historical Society ceased

I.C. White began working for the U.S. Geological Survey

Emanuel Willis Wilson succeeded into the governorship

The Ohio River Railroad was completed

The Ohio River flooded at Wheeling

The Ohio River flooded again and brought public protest

Kenova experienced a disastrous flood

The Ohio River flooded at Wheeling

The Great Easter Flood of 1913 damaged the company's Marietta plant, prompting its leaders to look for a new location.

A devastating flood hit New Martinsville

Ohio River crested at 55.20 feet, more than 15 feet above flood stage

Potomac River at Harpers Ferry crested at a record 36.50 feet, 15 feet above flood level, destroying last Bollman spans

Potomac River at Paw Paw crested at a record 54 feet, 29 feet above flood stage

Ohio River at Huntington crested at a record 69.45 feet, more than 14 feet above flood stage

Ohio River flooded, inundating much of Huntington. The river crested at a record 69.45 feet, more than 19 feet above flood stage

Ohio River at Huntington reached 69.45 feet, more than 19 feet above flood stage

The Ohio River flooded at Wheeling