Organ Cave

Western Land was offered in payment to Revolutionary War veterans

William Haymond surveyed streets and lots

Zackquill Morgan became the proprietor of an "ordinary" (Tavern or inn)

Zackquill Morgan had Morgantown surveyed on his land

John McCue planted churches in Lewisburg, Union, and Spring Creek.

The British accepted Virginia's claim to the Ohio Valley territory in the Treaty of Paris, which ends the Revolutionary War

The Tomlinson family returned to the Grave Creek area

John Thornton Augustine Washington was born

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

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)

John George Jackson began his salt works on the West Fork

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

Martin Delany family was forced to flee Virginia to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, for violating black education law

Harrisville was laid out by Thomas Harris

The first Western Virginia cut-nail machinery was installed at Ices Ferry Ironworks

The first Catholic church in West Virginia was established in Wheeling by German and Irish parishioners

Covered bridges over the Greenbrier and Gauley rivers opened

Joseph Johnson was elected to the House of Representatives

Bounties paid for gray wolves were discontinued

Robert W. Simmons was born at Fredericksburg

Williamstown was chartered

Elizabeth was chartered by the General Assembly

Akro Agate Company was relocated to Clarksburg

Mary Atkeson taught English for a year at the University of Missouri

Elkins and Wheeling claimed basketball supremacy

Izetta Brown moved to West Virginia as bride to William Gay Brown

Pearl Buck graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College

Sunday edition was added to Clarksburg Telegram

Golden Delicious apple was discovered on Mullens farm

Antoine (Tony) and Julien Gaujot earned Congressional Medals of Honor during the Philippine Insurrection and America's invasion of Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Phil Conley graduated from WVU

Artemus Cox moved to Charleston

Doddridge County's first roads were paved

Extension home economics agents were placed in certain counties to further efforts

Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act for federal funding to develop agricultural extension program

State prohibition began

The West Virginia Federation of Labor reported 152 local craft unions with 31,315

Ella Holroyd graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Conservatory

The Homer Laughlin Company made semi-vitreous and white granite dinner, hotel and toilet wares

Harley Kilgore earned his law degree from WVU

Harley Kilgore taught school for a year

State's economic focus had shifted to southern West Virginia

The local Catholic population built a school in Weston

The West Virginia Library Association was organized

Duval High School was built in Griffithsville

Akro Agate moved to Clarksburg

The Marlinton Opera House was sold due to default on deeds of trust

Frank McEnteer was appointed to superintend the building of the multi-span concrete arch bridge in Clarksburg

Willow Glen, or McKinley's Palace, construction began

The Yost Law became effective

A hotel building on the hill above Minnehaha Springs was completed

Dwight Morrow joined the banking firm J. P. Morgan and Company

Leonard "Lynn" Davis was born

Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company ceased logging Otter Creak

Charles Boldt started manufacturing glass in Huntington

The legislature established a minimum age of 10 for incarceration at Pruntytown

The Ohio Valley Refining Company began operating in St. Marys

There were 40 local offices elected from the Socialist Party

Weirton Steel employment was 5,348

A monument to the Confederacy was erected in Hinton

The USS Huntington was on the West Coast

The Vitrolite factory was fully completed

A nursing school was established at what is now Welch Community Hospital

The Jones brothers of Red Star Coal & Coke Company donated land to the Baptist State Convention

Wheeling Hospital grew to 225 beds