Midland Trail

Capt. Arbuckle's troops join Gen. Lewis's march to Point Pleasant

George Clendenin accompanied Col. Andrew Lewis to Point Pleasant

Harman Blennerhassett returned impoverished to England

Second meeting in Staunton was called

John Gallaher published The Ladies' Garland

The Old State Road ran from Lewisburg to Montgomery's ferry

Joseph Doddridge wrote Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars

Congress assigned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the responsibility of maintaining year-round navigation on America's inland rivers

Flood waters severely damaged the lock and dam systems on the West Fork

Anne Royall lost her inheritance to relatives and was refused pension as widow of Revolutionary War veteran

John Taylor died

South Charleston Stamping and Manufacturing Company took over the VW plant at Charleston Ordnance Center

Stephen Coonts wrote Final Flight

Ken Joseph of Ashland, Kentucky bought the Edwards Moonlight to renovate it as a restaurant

Daniel Boyd released the movie Chillers

The Stonewall Jackson Dam was completed

A report stated that 78% of the state was forested

Henry Louis Gates wrote The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism

Mrs. Ailes retired as assistant editor of the Hampshire Review

The first woman, Bessie Horn, was admitted to the He-Man Club

The state's original interstate system was completed

The state budget was $3.3 billion

William Hoffman wrote By Land By Sea

Kaiser Aluminum plant was sold to Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation

Girls were again admitted to Linsly school

Lee Maynard published the novel Crum

Louise McNeill published The Milkweed Ladies

Louise McNeill published TheMilkweed Ladies

Richard Osborne was promoted to publisher of the Logan Banner

West Virginia became a charter member of the multi-state "Lotto America" game

Irene McKinney published a collection of poetry, Quick Fire and Slow Fire

The Fairmont High Level Bridge reopened after restoration

Diana Sole and Dan Shreve released A Principled Man, about Leon Sullivan

The Hatfields were beaten by the McCoys in Tug Fork tug-of-war

Homer Hickam published The Coalwood Way

William Hoffman wrote Blood and Guile

The Collis P. Huntington Statue was moved back in front of the C&O depot

Fanny Johnson's "The Strange Looking Man "was included in Oxford University Press anthology Women's Writing on the First World War

Johnnie Johnson was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame in the sidemen category