Ferdinando Fairfax

William Crawford directed the construction of Fort Fincastle (Fort Henry)

Isaac Cox transferred his land to John Decker

Fort Henry at Wheeling was constructed

Hurricane Creek received its name by a group of surveyors

William Morris and others settled at Cedar Grove in Kanawha County

Simon Kenton served as a frontier scout in the Muskingum War

The county jail of Martinsburg was completed

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was born

Paint Creek was named

Pricketts Fort was built at the confluence of Pricketts Creek and the Monongahela River by Capt. Jacob Prickett

The Lewis Trail became an early route over Sewell Mountain

The Boggs family settled near Wheeling

Union was settled by James Alexander

Thomas Walker was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs

Thomas Walker was a member of the Revolutionary Conventions

The Ohio River flooded

John Beckley became the first clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

Hughes' detractors unsuccessfully attempted to have Hughes River renamed "Junius River"

The Presbyterian general Assembly adopted a policy to send missionaries to the American frontier settlements to form new congregations.

John Stuart built a large stone house in Fort Springs

John Augustine Washington was born

The Treaty of Fort Harmar was signed

Harman Blennerhassett sold his property

Daniel Boone moved back to Kentucky

House now containing Brooke County's historical museum was built in Wellsburg

Buckongahelas signed the Treaty of Greenville

George Clendenin moved to Ohio

Wilson Nicholas and Jacob Kenney sold their land to Robert Morris

Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett purchased Backus Island, now Blennerhassett Island

Thankful friends of Dick Pointer petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom but were refused

Joseph Ruffner first visited his newly acquired land

William Strange was lost in the forests near Holly River

Joseph Tomlinson laid out a town called Elizabethtown

The massacre of the Bozarth family was the last Indian foray in Upshur County

The General Assembly incorporated the Spencer farm as a town

Lewis Wetzel moved to Louisiana Territory

Charles Town became the county seat of Jefferson County

John Jackson died

Joseph Johnson and family settled in Harrison County

William W. Brumfield settled in Lincoln County at Big Ugly Creek

John Tackett settled in Lincoln County

John Marshall became the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

The first iron furnace west of the Allegheny Mountains was acquired by Peter Tarr and James Rankin

Dick Pointer was purchased and freed

The shape-note method for teaching singing first published in The Easy Instructor: A New Method of teaching Sacred Harmony in Philadelphia

A munitions plant began production at Harpers Ferry

Daniel Boone died in Missouri

James River & Kanawha Turnpike was completed

William H. Cabell sold Green Bottom and its slaves to Capt. William Jenkins

The Staunton Convention failed to meet western demands

Elizabeth Cummins Jackson died

James Monroe Jackson was born

City of Bolivar was established

Robert E. Lee entered West Point

Project management of the National Road was passed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Capt. Henry Shreve replaced the first Washington with the George Washington

Cedar Lawn was built by John Thornton Augustine Washington

Isaiah Welch was born in Doddridge County

Management at Sweet Springs opened a new hostelry

Gordon Battelle received a B.A. from Marietta Collegiate Institute (Marietta College)

John Carlile was admitted to the bar

Castlerock community began

90 furnaces produced a million bushels of salt annually

Eli Moore graduated from Jefferson College

William Howe given patent for the Howe truss system

Fayette County's first census recorded 3,924 residents

Two communion cups from this year are among the antiques of the Forks-of-Cheat Baptist Church

John Hale moved to the Kanawha Valley

Mill Island was built as a private house

John H. Hall invented the first working interchangeable firearms manufacturing system for breechloading rifle at Hall's Rifle Works

Chester Hubbard graduated as valedictorian from Wesleyan University of Connecticut

The first church was built in the Jackson County area

Jackson County's population was 4,890

Construction of the James River & Kanawha Canal was completed between Richmond and Lynchburg

Joseph Lightburn moved to Lewis County

Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church was constructed

Mifflin Marsh began selling stogies to steamboat crews and passengers for four for a penny

John Chapman erected the first house in New Cumberland

All bridges on the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike were completed

William P. Rathbone and his sons purchased 12,000 acres at Burning Springs Run in Wirt County.

Census provided numerical proof that the white population of the Trans-Allegheny exceeded that of the rest of the state

Benjamin Stickley was licensed as a United Brethren evangelist

German members of the United Brethren in Baltimore migrated to Braxton County

The Rathbones purchased land at Burning Springs

Female Academy in Union (Monroe County) started

Locust Hill was built by Lucy Elizabeth Washington

The Wine family first settled in Braxton County

Charles Ambler received an M.A. in social sciences

Waitman Barbe wrote The Study of Poetry

Company constructed a three-story wooden hotel near the spring at Barger Springs

Walter Barnes graduated from WVU

Jesse Bloch married Jessie Thornton Moffat

C&O absorbed the Hocking Valley Railroad

William Edwin Chilton and others bought Charleston's electric streetcar system

Oliver Chitwood received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins

Coal & Coke Railway reached Clay

Alston Dayton was appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Legislature created a four-member Board of Examiners to issue teaching certificates

Fenton Art Glass Company opened in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

The Frederick Hotel was built in downtown Huntington

William Glasscock was appointed internal revenue collector for the District of West Virginia by President Theodore Roosevelt

The C&O Greenbrier Division extension to Winterburn was completed

The original Grimes Golden apple tree blew down

Ella Holroyd entered the Cincinnati Conservatory

Earnest T. Weir purchased the Jackson Iron & Tin Company tin mill at Clarksburg

John Jay Jackson Jr. retired as judge

Tommy Benford was born in Charleston

Blanche Lazzell received an art degree from WVU

St. George Orthodox Church of Charleston was established

Howard B. Lee graduated from Marshall College (now University)

Sarah Ann Legg went on trial for murder of Jay Legg

Carnegie library was established in Parkersburg

Oil and gas business began in Griffithsville

The entire Little Kanawha River system was acquired by the federal government

The electric streetcar service arrived in Mannington

Martin Christensen invented the marble-making machine

Frank McEnteer graduated from Harvard Engineering School

Jim Sellers and J.W Grimm bought a brick-making machine

The West Virginia Department of Mines was created

Matewan opened its first hospital

Margaret Montague published The Poet, Miss Kate, and I

The West Virginia State Museum was founded

The B&O Beaux Arts-style station in Wheeling was built

John Nugent was elected president of the state Federation of Labor

Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company expanded operations by buying a sawmill on Cherry River at Coal Siding.

The Western Maryland Railroad arrived in Paw Paw

A commercial department was added to Potomac State College

The Virginian Railroad developed a shop and yards in Princeton.

Teddy Roosevelt walked Eleanor Roosevelt down the aisle to marry FDR

St. Joseph's Hospital opened a nursing school

The Pope Dock Company built Sunny South

The Morgan Museum began in Putnam County by Sidney Morgan

The Sunrise mansion was built by William MacCorkle

Ernest T. Weir founded Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate in Clarksburg

The West Virginia Archives and History was created by legislature

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg(h) became part of the Western Maryland Railway Company

The Historical Society ceased publication of The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly

The Historical Society collections were moved to the Capitol Annex

West Virginia Wesleyan College awarded its first five degrees

Albert White left office as governor

The Elk River Coal & Lumber Company organized

Timber in the Williams River watershed began being taken out by log train

Williamson was incorporated

A bridge at Williamstown was built

Laura Jackson Arnold was named "Mother of the Regiment" by the 5th West Virginia Cavalry