Woodlawn Cemetery

The name of the Winchester Female Institute was changed to Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Johnson Camden and his partners quietly sold to Rockefeller's Standard Oil

Marmaduke Dent was admitted to the bar

Stephen Elkins married Hallie Davis Elkins

Aretas Fleming left the House of Delegates

Remains from the Foreman party were transferred to Mount Roase Cemetery

Oil was first struck in Glenville

The Grange had 20,000 lodges and 800,000 members in the country

The Lewisburg Academy reopened after closing during the Civil War

Courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

The Pennsboro & Harrisville Railroad was built

The House of Delegates impeached Treasurer John Burdett

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians started a division in Wheeling

The capital was moved from Charleston to Wheeling

Harriet Jones graduated from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay married Julia Ballintyne

Wheeling became known as the Nail City because of La Belle Ironworks

The legislature was required to met biennially

President Alexander Martin left WVU

A bill providing for better ventilation in the mines had been first introduced in legislature

The Morrow family moved to Pittsburgh

Johnson Newlon Camden joined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust

The Sentinel was founded as the Parkersburg Weekly Sentinel by Robert Hornor.

Reported 14 baptisms at St. John's Chapel

The first band sawmill began operation in West Virginia

Nathan Scott moved to Wheeling

Alexander Wade was elected Monongalia County school superintendent

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute

Cassville was chartered

Ernest T. Weir was born

I.C. White earned a masters degree at WVU

Parents of Walter Aegerter, Gottfried and Marianna Dubach Aegerter, moved to Helvetia

Sumner School in Parkersburg added high school courses to its curriculum for black students.

Annie Bartlett married Leonidas Bartlett

Belle Boyd married her third husband Nathaniel High

Flat Top Coal Company established its headquarters in Bramwell

The state song "The West Virginia Hills" written by Ellen Ruddell was put to music by Henry Everett Engle

The Hale House burned down in Charleston

The move of the capital to Charleston occurred

Jacob Beeson Jackson left office as governor of West Virginia

Frances Benjamin Johnston ended her studies in Paris at the Academie Julian

One of the state's earliest telephone systems was installed in Weston

John H. Lilly planted two or three oak trees that are still standing today

John McGraw left as Taylor County prosecuting attorney

The Berkeley Castle was built as a summer cottage

The capital moved permanently back to Charleston aboard the Chesapeake and Belle Prince

The former state capital was used for the Ohio County Courthouse

Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly moved its offices to Wheeling

Christopher Payne established the West Virginia Enterprise.

A new owner resumed mining at Ritchie Mines

The Ruffner Hotel was built in Charleston

The "West Virginia Mission" was organized under the Ohio conference

Morris Shawkey entered business college

I.C. White wrote an article in Science asserting his rediscovery of the anticlinal theory in the location of oil and gas

Homer Holt began working with Governor Kump on the state's finances following the stock market crash

Homer Laughlin China Company suspended operations in East Liverpool, Ohio

Frank Hutchison had recorded about 32 songs for the OKeh Record Company

The stock market crash hurt the profits of Interwoven Mills

Weirton Steel Corporation merged with Michigan Steel of Detroit and M.A. Hanna Steel of Cleveland to form National Steel Corporation

The McWhorter cabin was moved to Jackson's Mill

Stock market crash forced the James Produce Company into bankruptcy

John L. Dickinson moved Kanawha Valley Bank into new building at the former site of the capitol building

Tom Kromer began traveling the country by freight train

Cousin Abe Lilly organized the Lilly Reunion Association

The Logan County coal industry began to decline

The Citizen's National Bank was absorbed by the Charleston National Bank

I. T. Mann's business empire collapsed at the onset of the Depression

Walter Martens completed the work for Homeland, a skillfully designed Colonial-revival residence in Lewisburg

Bernard McDonough specialized in building gas stations in the greater Parkersburg area

The Department of Mines had 25 inspectors and three inspectors at large

Bath Square became Berkeley Springs State Park

The Owens Bottle Company merged with Illinois Glass Company to become Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Maceo Pinkard enlisted blues diva Bessie Smith for Pansy

Ruth Rohde represented Florida's Fourth District

St. Joseph's administrators decided to build a new hospital

The Raine Lumber Company ceased logging in Seneca State Forest

Ada "Bricktop" Smith married Peter Duconge

Ernest Weir formed the National Steel corporation with Weirton Steel as its flagship

Grace Martin Taylor visited Blanche Lazzell in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Commercial mining in Webster County produced approximately 100,000 tons of coal

The railroad at Webster Springs was discontinued

The Archives and History library, state archives and museum moved to the new state capitol

WSAZ was purchased by the Huntington Publishing Company

The property of the Youghiogheny Forest Colony was purchased by Frank Reeves

John Zontini rushed an average per carry of 27 yards

T. G. Nutter filed a lawsuit regarding a restrictive covenant that prohibited African-Americans from purchasing a lot in a Huntington subdivision.