DeSales Heights

Confederate cavalry under Gens. John McCausland and Bradley Johnson camped in South Branch Valley

Only 490,000 tons of coal were produced in West Virginia

Dr. James Dye was born in Chloe

Delta Tau Delta revived its Bethany Chapter

Marmaduke Dent enrolled in classes at WVU

Joseph Diss Debar involved West Virginia in the Paris Exposition

Easton Roller Mill began operation

Stephen Elkins served as New Mexico's attorney general

Palatine was incorporated

Work on Grafton National Cemetery began

Grantsville was named for Ulysses S. Grant

Hamlin was chosen as county seat of Lincoln County

Thomas Harris served in the House of Delegates

The Clarksburg Independent School District was established

Mother Jones's husband, George, and their four children died in the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis

George Latham became U.S. Consul to Australia

Joseph Lightburn became a Baptist preacher

The Little Kanawha Navigation Company let contracts for the first four locks and dams

The initial railroad map of West Virginia was published by the B&O Railroad

Henry Hyannis purchased the old Nadenbousch distillery in Martinsburg

John McCausland returned to Mason County after fleeing the country at the end of the Civil War

Dr. James Edmund Reeves and 32 colleagues established the West Virginia State Medical Association, orginally the Medical Society of West Virginia

The West Virginia Penitentiary opened

A monument commemorating the Confederate dead was erected at Romney Indian Mound Cemetery

Trustees of West Liberty sold the school to the state

I. C. White became one of the first 6 students to enter the Agricultural College of West Virginia (WVU)

William Wilson graduated from Columbian College

West Virginia legislature authorized the establishment of normal schools to train teachers

Uncle Dyke Garrett married Sallie "Aunt Sallie" Smith

Hazel Dickens received the Lifetime Achievement Award from North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance

Gods and Generals was filmed in Harpers Ferry

The community celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Flatwoods Monster sighting

Jennifer Garner appeared in Catch Me If You Can

The Monongahela National Forest's Middle Mountain Cabin was torn down

"Biggie" Goldberg moved retired to Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Judge Charles Haden once again made decision restricting the practice of mountaintop removal mining

Ken Hechler received the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award in Independence, Missouri

Homer Hickam published We Are Not Afraid

William Hoffman ppublished Wild Thorn