Eagle Rock

Report of Salt Rock petroglyphs included in Smithsonian Institution's "Contributions to Knowledge"

Bids authorized on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike

Rebecca Davis graduated from the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary

First county and circuit courts of Wirt County met in "Old Red Brick"

The Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike was completed

John Floyd was elected governor

German immigration increased from desire to escape persecution during European Revolutions

The first German newspaper was established in Wheeling

The Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike was completed

Joseph H. Gill surveyed the Guyandotte River from its mouth to Gilbert Creek

The Ellicott Brothers business failed

C. P. Huntington went to California with the gold rush to sell supplies to miners

A Catholic Church was established at Sand Fork

John Jay Jackson Jr. served as prosecuting attorney of Wirt County

Daniel Lamb became the cashier of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia at Wheeling

A single lock and dam was built on the Elk River

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis published Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy was founded

Francis Pierpont began an association with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

A massive fire and flood doomed Creel's village to an early death

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates

Bancroft was settled

Henry Ruffner resigned as president of Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

James Stephenson left the House of Delegates

Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. died

Cabell, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties provided infantry regiments for service in the Mexican-American War

Levi Dean built his office in downtown Huntington

Diamond Department Store was built at site of old state capitol

Douglass School gained accreditation from the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges

Irvin Dugan began working as newspaper artist

First commercial synthetic wood alcohol, methanol, was made at Belle

Garnet High School moved to corner of Shrewsbury and Lewis streets in Charleston

Country music star Vernon Dalhart recorded "The Miner's Doom," written by John Unger about the Berkeley Glass Sand explosions

All larger cities were linked by hard-surface roads

Alberta Pierson Hannum received a B.A. from the Ohio State University

Frank Hutchison recorded one of his earliest versions of "John Henry" with Arnold and Irving Williamson

Don Redman joined McKinney's Cotton Pickers