Henderson Hall

Aaron Burr and accomplice Harman Blennerhassett were arrested

Alexander Campbell's father, Thomas Campbell, migrated to Washington, Pennsylvania

Patrick Gass published his journals from the Lewis and Clark expedition

Felix Grundy resigned from the Kentucky Supreme Court

Thomas Harris moved his family to Harrisville

Joseph Johnson acquired additional acreage on Simpson Creek

Kingwood was settled

Bishop James Madison's maps appeared

The Wheeling Repository was established

William Parsons built the first road between Clarksburg and Point Pleasant

Thomas Harris moved westward from Clarksburg

The Halcyon Church declined

Levi Shinn died

Johann Stifel was born

James Caldwell land in West Union (Doddridge County) was sold, and settled by Nathan, William, and Joseph Davis

John D. Sutton gave one acre of ground for a public square in Sutton

Monroe County discontinued the system

Rebecca Davis family moved to Wheeling

The Winchester & Potomac Railroad opened line to Virginius Island at Harpers Ferry

The Virginia Geological Report noted the county's rich coal deposits

Henry Clay Furnace was built on Clay Run

The Henry Clay Furnace was built to supply pig iron to Ices Ferry Ironworks

The city of Ravenswood was laid out

Benjamin Kelley moved to Wheeling

Joseph Martin produced the only gazetteer of Virginia before the state split

Alexander Martin moved to Jefferson County, Ohio

The first courthouse in Elizabethtown (present Moundsville) was built

The first public building, a jail, was completed in present Moundsville

A new building was authorized to be built in Wheeling for the Ohio County courthouse

The C&O canal company began to carve through Sorrel Ridge

Samuel Price moved to Wheeling and became prosecuting attorney for Braxton County.

Anne Royall began publishing The Huntress newspaper

Henry Ruffner became president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)

William Chapman acquired a small steamboat to tow the Floating Theater upstream

Braxton County was formed

The United Brethren Virginia Conference sent Michael Moses to New Haven

Wheeling was incorporated as a city

The African Methodist Episcopal Church aided slaves in Western Virginia after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Gordon Battelle moved to a church in Wheeling

Charles James Faulkner Sr. was appointed minister to France by President Buchanan

Alexander Boteler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig

Boyds moved to 500 block of South Queen Street, Martinsburg

Meshach Browning died

First oil-producing well drilled in Pennsylvania

Construction of stone-filled timber crib dams and timber-crib locks were completed on the Coal River

Claude Crozet became principal of Richmond Academy

Henry Koontz bought a 600-acre farm in Easton, near Morgantown

Weston College was sold at public auction

Granville Davisson Hall moved to Wheeling

Morris Harvey began his service as Fayette County sheriff

George Imboden married Mary Franes Tyree

Martin Robison Delany and 34 others met with John Brown in Canada to develop a provisional constitution for the liberated slaves

Mother Jones began teaching in a convent school in Michigan

George Latham was admitted to the bar

Construction of Weston Hospital began

A library company in Wheeling was chartered by Virginia

Linsly Institute built a new three-story building

Martin Delany wrote Blake: or, The Huts of America

Daniel Lucas was admitted to the practice of law

Michael J. Owens was born

The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike was completed

The Greenbrier Historical Society begun

Frederick Lemon sold the Ritchie Mines

Nathan Scott travelled to Leavenworth Kansas

Traveller took top prizes in the Lewisburg fair

Only 94 of 162 state chartered turnpike companies operated within West Virginia

The U.S. Customs House was built

A new U.S. Custom House was completed at Wheeling

Waitman Willey was defeated as a candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia