Grantsville

There were 250 churches in West Virginia

Capt. John M. Burns established a sawmill at Burnsville

Jefferson and Berkeley confirmed as West Virginia by U.S. Congress

Henry Gassaway Davis received charter to build the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway

Dickinson-Shrewsbury partnership dissolved by the courts after partners died

Private school for black children, in Parkersburg, was converted to a public school

J. N. Boyd began publication of Vedette in Fairmont

Three men were hanged on the "hanging tree" at Fort Boreman

Freedmen's Bureau began operation in West Virginia

Grant County was formed from Hardy County

Morris Harvey and brother-in-law received a land grant from West Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River

The Radical-dominated legislature enacted the Voters' Registration Law

John Joseph Kain was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Richmond

The Buckhannon home of George Latham was purchased

A new shop complex was built in Martinsburg, with roundhouse

Elizabethtown and Moundsville were consolidated under Moundsville

Free schools were established in Moundsville

The multiflora rose was introduced to the eastern U.S. as rootstock for ornamental roses

The North Bend superintendent's residence was built by Christopher Douglas

Samuel Price became a director of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

George Lemon died

Sumner School became West Virginia's earliest black public school

H.M. Calhoun was born

Samuel W. Starks was born in Charleston

Sumner School became a part of the segregated public school system

Ceredo was incorporated

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway was chartered under the name of the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company

Archibald Campbell left the Wheeling Intelligencer

William H. Davis became a teacher for Malden’s Black children

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

Sisters established a benevolent school for poor children in Parkersburg

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

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

William Edwin Chilton appointed to an unexpired term as Kanawha County prosecutor

Legislature established the West Virginia Department of Mines and fatality records began to be kept

Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company acquired the Ohio Fuel Supply Company

Henry Gassaway Davis left the U.S. Senate

Fayetteville was incorporated under its name

John P. Hale published a pamphlet on Daniel Boone's years in the Kanawha Valley

James Edward "Blind Ed" Haley was born

William "Coin" Harvey went to Colorado to work as silver prospector and miner

The Lovett family began ownership of the Lockwood House in Harpers Ferry

William Howells retired from Ohio politics

The James Produce Company was started by Charles H. James

Frances Benjamin Johnston began her studies at the Academie Juilian in Paris

State legislature elected John Kenna to the U.S. Senate

William Leigh left Maryland Institute to begin studying at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany

The Wheeling Public Library was created

The Norfolk & Western Railway arrived in Mercer county

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller wrote The Bride of the Tomb

The first mine safety laws in West Virginia were enacted

English immigrants settled in the Linwood-Mingo area of Randolph County

A prohibition amendment passed in the House of Delegates but was defeated in the Senate.

Ripley's population was at 614

Lewis Ruffner died

The Salvation Army opened its first West Virginia "corps" in Wheeling

Seventh-Day Adventist churches were organized in Wood and Kanawha counties

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburgh Railroad first entered Upshur County

Dr. John J. Moorman stopped doctoring the crowds at White Sulphur Springs

Thomas Anshutz painted Steamboat on the Ohio

B&O Railroad only hauled four percent of Tidewater-bound soft coal

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company began buying land in West Virginia

George Sturdevant and John W. Johnson purchased the factory at Brush Creek Falls in Mercer County

Michael Benedum married Sarah Lantz

"Athens" name of new post office and village

William Coley founded the Parsons Advocate newspaper

John William Davis began teaching law at Washington & Lee

Democrats slipped into minority status in West Virginia

According to legend, underground Elk (River) was formed when a hole opened in the stream bed and simply swallowed the river

Thaddeus Fowler first visited West Virginia

Edward Bates Franzheim designed the Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling

The Trinity United Methodist Church was organized in Glenville

The H.K. Bedford began Pittsburgh-Charleston service

William Jennings Bryan was defeated as free silver presidential candidate

Hamilton Hatter became the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute (Bluefield State College)

Homer Laughlin incorporated as Homer Laughlin and Company

The original Seneca Glass Company building was built

William Leigh painted his portrait of Sophie H. Colston

The Moundsville Daily Echo became a daily publication

Louis Marx was born

John McGraw first served as a member of the Democratic National Committee

James Miller served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

The Seneca Glass Company moved from Ohio to Morgantown

The South Branch Intelligencer merged with the Hampshire Review

Lawrence Nuttall and C. F. Millspaugh published Flora of West Virginia

Melville Davisson Post's short story collection The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason made him immensely popular.

The second period of Republican dominance began

Telephone switchboards were installed at Morgantown

The Webster Springs Hotel was built

Agnes Westbrook Morrison was admitted to the bar

WVU hires its first full-time coach

Matthew Whittico graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania

Matewan challenged Williamson as county seat of Mingo County

Carter Woodson graduated from Douglass High School

Hurry-up Yost played tackle on the WVU football team

The Shenandoah River flooded