Berkeley County

Job and John Pearsall established homesteads in present Romney

Charles Washington was born

Charles Clendenin emigrated to America

Washington surveying team noted one of the earliest schools in Moorefield area

Moravian missionary reported the amount of Germans in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties

Reported 200 people were living at Pearsall's Flats

Levi Shinn was born

George Washington described the Trough on the South Branch in his journal

Thomas Walker explored Virginia's New River Valley

Thomas Beall was born

Francis Asbury is part of the Methodist movement in England

Botetourt County formed from southern half of Augusta

John Corbly settled in the Morgantown area

John Sutton formed the Simpson Creek Baptist Church in Harrison County

Lord Dunmore was appointed governor of New York

William Stewart came from Ireland to the Forks of Cheat in present Monongalia County

Col. George Washington and Dr. James Craik claimed land in the Ohio watershed on their canoe trip

Killbuck died at the Delaware village in present Coshocton, Ohio

While hunting, Kyashuta encounters George Washington on his canoe trip

The upper watershed of the Little Kanawha was explored by John Hacker

Chief Logan moved his family to the Ohio Valley

George Washington surveyed Ohio River bottomlands from Point Pleasant to Letart

Samuel McColloch emigrated from the South Branch of the Potomac to Wheeling

A survey party led by George Washington visited the present Point Pleasant area in Mason County

George Washington surveyed the present Ravenswood area in Jackson County and later acquired 2,448 acres there

Jesse Hughes became the first European to enter Roane County

John Stuart built the first mill in Greenbrier County

Joseph Tomlinson and brother Samuel Tomlinson settled in the Ohio Valley frontier

The Treaty of Lochaber secured for Britain any lands in the Western Virginia region not covered by the Treaty of Hard Labor

George Washington wrote the first written accounts of the forests of present West Virginia

A permanent settlement was made in the Buckhannon Valley

A log house was built by James Byrnside in Union

Samuel Washington built his house Harewood in present Jefferson County

Adam Stephen was responsible for the creation of Berkeley County

Artist John Drinker was active in Pocahontas County

Daniel Boone and his family settled near mouth of Kanawha River

Dr. Henry Harvey was born in Fincastle, Virginia

Pendleton County was formed.

Franklin originated as county seat of Pendleton County

David E. Jackson was born

The first Mennonites in West Virginia settled near Lewisburg

George Lemon was born

John Stuart was a member of the Virginia convention that advocated ratification of the U.S. Constitution

Reader, Wetzel County, was settled

Ebenezer Zane represented Ohio County in the Virginia convention to ratify U.S. Constitution

B&O line completed to Cumberland

Jacob Blair began to study law under his uncle John Jay Jackson, Sr.

Western Virginians met in Clarksburg and Lewisburg and demanded a Constitutional Convention

Henry Gassaway Davis became brakeman for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Joseph Diss Debar came to the U.S.

William Edwards graduated from Williams College

John Gallaher became a state senator

Chester Hubbard married Sarah Pallister

John Jay Jackson Sr commanded a brigade in the Virginia militia

Stonewall Jackson entered West Point

Joseph Lightburn sought admission to West Point

Fairmont became county seat at creation of Marion County

The B&O Railroad arrived in Mineral County

The General Assembly chartered three academies in Pocahontas County for the preparation of students for the University of Virginia, at Green Bank, Hillsboro, and Huntersville

William Rosecrans graduated from West Point

Wayne was founded as a town

Kellian Whaley moved to Wayne County

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

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

The three-story front section of Henderson Hall was completed

Arthur Boreman was elected first governor of West Virginia

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Normal Institute in Virginia and returned to teach Sunday school at the African Zion Baptist Church

Edward Willis moved the Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University) to Clarksburg

Joseph Beury left Quinnimont

Benjamin C. Criswell won the Congressional Medal of Honor at the Battle of Little Big Horn

James Putney died

Henry Koontz died and Easton Roller Mill was taken over by the Anderson family

The Grange had 378 lodges and 10,700 members in West Virginia

Jedediah Hotchkiss' Virginia: A Geographical and Political Summary was published for the Virginia legislature

The impeachment trial of John Burdett in the Senate removed him from office of Treasurer

Maurice Sullivan sold his land atop Irish Mountain to J. J. Kane for a church and cemetery

Jackson's Mill was sold outside the Jackson family after the death of Catherin Jackson White

Kudzu was first introduced in the U.S. at Philadelphia trade exposition as an ornamental

George Wesley Atkinson wrote The History of Kanawha County

George Wesley Atkinson wrote The History of Kanawha County

The new Berkeley Hotel opened in Martinsburg

John McGraw received a law degree at Yale University

The New Dominion was established by Julian Fleming and William Jacos

The second courthouse in Elizabethtown was built

New Cumberland's first newspaper, The Independent began publication

Samuel Price unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate.

Daniel Purinton married Florence A. Lyon.

William MacCorkle came to West Virginia to teach in Pocahontas County.

Nathan Scott became the president of Central Glass Company

Robert Simmons was a delegate to the Republican national convention

The Wheeling firm, Wheeling Centre Tannery, became known as J. G. Hoffman and Sons

Alexander Wade held his first exams

A cabin built by "Uncle Doc" Smith replaced the original Watters Smith cabin in southern Harrison County

Originally called "New Hall," Woodburn Hall was completed at WVU

I.C. White began working for the Pennsylvania Geological Survey

George Atkinson wrote Prominent Men of West Virginia

Harry Bandholtz graduated from West Point

Many Bloch Brothers employees joined the Tobacco Workers Union

Marshall University started botany classes

Charles Frederik Millspaugh suggested need for an arboretum at WVU

John J. Cornwell and brother William purchased the Hampshire Review

Stephen Elkins built his home, Halliehurst, in Elkins

Jack Glasscock won the National League batting title, hitting .336

William Glasscock became the clerk of the county circuit court

Nathan Goff Jr. bought the Clarksburg Telegram

The Lewisburg Academy changed its name to Greenbrier Military Academy

Capt. Gordon C. Greene bought the steamboat H.K. Bedford

John P. Hale helped and Virgil Lewis found the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society

The Herald began publication

Thomas Lovett built the Hilltop House in Harpers Ferry

Reported 236 native Hungarians in West Virginia

Congress enacted the McKinley tariff to stimulate the domestic production of tin plate

Jehovah Witnesses built the New Light church

The original line of the Norfolk & Western from Kenova to Mingo County was completed

Construction on municipal water and sewer systems began in Weston

Virgil Lewis began long career of historical writing

The Lincoln County Feud ended during the winter

The Hatfield and McCoy Feud ended

Joseph Long and partner founded the Wheeling News

The Middlesex Knitting Company was established in Martinsburg

Federal building in the Richardsonian Romanesque architecture style was built in Martinsburg

A Mennonite meetinghouse was built near Lost River

Commercial mining in Mingo County began with arrival of the N&W

A post office was established at Minnehaha Springs

Fairmont Electric Light and Power began operating a plant on the Monongahela River

A vast tank field was established in southeast Morgantown due to rapid expansion of oil and gas industry

A coal mine opened at Beechwood along the B&O line

Michael L. Benedum entered the industry as an employee of Standard Oil

The N&W acquired the Scioto Valley Railway

Herschel Ogden founded the Wheeling Daily News

Herschel Ogden married Mary Frances Moorehouse

Earl Oglebay, John D. Rockefeller and David Z Norton formed partnership, Oglebay Norton Co.

Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company erected a band sawmill at Sutton.

Parsons population was 84.

Daniel Purinton left WVU to become president of Denison College.

William Ritter began a logging operation in Mercer county

The statue of Patrick Henry at Monongalia Courthouse was moved indoors

The McKinley Tariff passed including duties on tin plate

Howard Sutherland moved to Washington as an official in the Census Bureau

Telephone switchboards were installed at Grafton

Aretas B. Fleming became governor of West Virginia

A springhouse was constructed at Webster Springs

C. F. Millspaugh published Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins on West Virginia's Weeds

Midway and Lazearville were annexed to Wellsburg

Weston had electric lights

The site of Williamson was still farmland

There were 6,247 residents in Wyoming County

West Virginia had 100,000 farms on 8.9 million acres

Charles Ambler served as sheriff of Pleasants County for two years

B&O added the Monongahela River Railroad (Fairmont to Clarksburg)

There were 600 Baptist churches in West Virginia

Raleigh County Republicans launched the Raleigh Herald

First women on the Bethany College board of trustees

Jesse Bloch entered the family Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company

Alonzo Brooks completed a business course at West Virginia Wesleyan College

Capon Springs developer William H. Sale died

Cass was founded by West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company

West Virginia Pulp & Paper built paper mill at Covington, Virginia

The Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) completed its Greenbrier Division into Pocahontas County to harvest red spruce on Cheat and Back Allegheny mountains

Moses Donnally sold the Charleston Gazette

Davis Child Shelter, an orphanage, was established in Charleston

First sewer lines were installed in Clarksburg

Coal production had doubled

Little evidence of the Coal River locks and dams remained

West Virginia chapter of the Colonial Dames of America was organized

Only remnant populations of deer and turkey were noted

West Virginia's median age was below national average at 20.3

Doddridge County population was 13,689

William Edwards wrote a book on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays

Fairmont Times was first published by Gen. C. L. Smith and O. S. McKinney

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Garnet High School was founded with a class of 12 black students

Howard Gore graduated from WVU with a degree in agriculture

Harrison County held a population of 27,690

Nancy Hart and husband Joshua Douglas settled in Webster County

Morris Harvey founded the Fayette National Bank

William "Coin" Harvey moved to Arkansas to begin building a retreat and vacation resort

The population of Helvetia reached 500 people

The first time the word "hillbilly" was used in print, in a New York newspaper

Reported 1,062 native Hungarians in West Virginia

Water power began being used for the production of electricity in West Virginia, at Kanawha Falls

Census reported 2,458 Indians living in West Virginia

There were 18 farms of the settlers on the Irish Tract

Jackson County's population rose to 19,000

Don Redman was born in Piedmont

The Kanawha Falls were augmented by a low dam

Oil and natural gas in high quantities was found in Lewis County

Cousin Abe Lilly received a law degree from the Southern Normal University, Tennessee

Railroad replaces streams as the chief means of transporting logs to sawmills

The Benwood Ironworks grew into a large steel mills

James Miller ceased to be Summers County prosecuting attorney

James Miller ran unsuccessfully for state auditor

Steam and electric fans made larger mines possible

The completion of the C&O Railway's Greenbrier Division to Marlinton put the Minnehaha Springs within reach of travelers

Fairmont's first electric streetcar line built

Morgantown population was at 1,895

The Morgantown Glass Works began production

A developer began selling oceanfront lots for $25 in Myrtle Beach

The anticlinal theory of oil and gas was applied along Sand Fork of the Little Kanawha

The Toledo & Ohio Central gained control of the Kanawha & Michigan and the Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad began purchasing the N&W stock

E.M. Carney purchased the Pence Springs property

Kanawha County had the largest population with 54,696 residents.

The largest city in the state was Wheeling with a population of 38,878.

The Lilly family began ownership of the Ruffner Hotel

St. Joseph's Hospital was founded by Patrick J. Donahue

Samuel and Violet Bryant got their first jobs on showboats

James H. Brown's obelisk was erected at Spring Hill Cemetery

Interurban railway operations began in Huntington

Tyler County's oil and gas boom peaked

Wayne County population was at 23,619

Wings were added to Woodburn Hall at WVU

Weston had municipal water plant, sanitary and storm sewer systems and brick paved streets

West Virginia Pulp & Paper began constructing a sawmill in Cass

A nursing school was founded at Wheeling Hospital

The Collins Colliery company store burned

Matthew Whittico moved to Keystone

Buffalo, elk, gray wolf and passenger pigeon had all disappeared from West Virginia

The second courthouse at Winfield was built

Wirt County's population peaked at 10,284

Carter G. Woodson became principal of Douglass High School

The first record of the ballad "The Wreck on the C&O" came out

Kanawha Park was built in Charleston for baseball

Kanawha Park was built for baseball

Beckley street paving began

John T. Harris produced the first volume of the West Virginia Blue Book

Izetta Brown took over management of Preston County farm and established modern dairy operation after husband's death

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company built a sawmill at Swandale

Col. E. G. Via bought the Camden Park

George Carter moved to Coalwood

The first fire towers were erected

Fairmont High School class wrote Marion County in the Making

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company located one of its main plants in Clarksburg

Letter from former Governor MacCorkle to state archivist Henry S. Green confuses John Hardy with John Henry

The West Virginia Asylum name changed to Huntington State Hospital

The company town of Itmann was built

Fanny Johnson published her only novel, The Beloved Son

Libbey-Owens-Ford built its large plate glass plant in Kanawha City

Herman Kump was defeated for prosecuting attorney

Blanche Lazzell began working in the method of single block color print

Howard B. Lee began serving as Mercer County prosecuting attorney

William Alexander MacCorkle wrote The White Sulphur Springs

Joseph Long became the postmaster of Huntington

Sam Mallison became city editor of the Clarksburg Telegram

Publication of the Market Bulletin began when James H. Stewart was agriculture commissioner

The Tilton family regained ownership of the Marlinton Opera House

John McGraw was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

Six passenger trains a day operated from Charleston to Blakeley on Kellys Creek

12 passenger trains a day were scheduled into Charleston

The Point Pleasant Register became a daily

Michael Owens launched a Charleston glass factory

Paden City was incorporated

Pendleton Land Company took over Paden City Pottery

The Wyoming County courthouse was built

Rat Rodgers was named to the All-American teams

Socialists controlled both District 29 and District 17 of the UMWA

The Charleston Interurban Railroad was built to Cabin Creek

The earliest recorded instance of surface mining in West Virginia occurred

The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia was incorporated

The USS Huntington was on the West Coast

The National Guard was activated after a call for troops to pursue Pancho Villa on the Mexican border

The National Guard was activated in call for troops to pursue Pancho Villa on the Mexican border

Statewide constitutional referendum for women's suffrage passed

Carter G. Woodson began publication of the Journal of Negro History

A courthouse at Pineville was built

Frank Reeves received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University

Evangelist Billy Sunday stayed at Aracoma Hotel

Walter Barnes wrote New Democracy in the Teaching of English

The Beckley Register began publishing a Sunday issue

Son William H. and wife joined William J. Blenko in Milton at his first factory

Maurice Brooks graduated from WVU with a B.A.

West Virginia's first commercial radio station WRVC began broadcasting in the Huntington area

Thomas Carr retired from Carr China Company

First baccalaureate degrees were awarded at Concord State Normal School (now Concord University)

Phil Conley founded the West Virginia Publishing Company

The last Democratic majority until 1930

The beaver was extirpated for its fur

John Harrington Cox received his Ph.D. from Harvard

Julia Davis married William McMillan Adams

Rev. Robert Edward Lee Strider was consecrated bishop coadjutor of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Wheeling

Fairmont State was authorized for four-year program but must confine to training teachers

Cooperative agricultural marketing law was passed

U.S. Coal Commission report awarded Gary 90 out of 100 points for cleanliness, urban amenities and safety consideration

The current courthouse was completed in Glenville

School name was changed from Lewisburg Seminary to Greenbrier College for Women

Lost Creek was the largest cattle shipping point on the B&O system

The present Ritchie County courthouse was completed

Homer Holt received a law degree from Washington and Lee University

Construction of the large Itmann Company Store began

Ella Mae Turner published compilation Stories and Verses of West Virginia

Herman Kump left office as mayor of Elkins

The State Hospital for the Colored Insane and the State Industrial School for Colored boys were established in Lakin

Hu Maxwell wrote A Tree History of the United States

Margaret Montague published Deep Channel

Herbert Chester became publisher of the Morgantown Post

Huntington First (Church of the Nazarene) was established in the Charleston-Huntington corridor and is the oldest congregation in that area

Henry Ford built the world's largest incline tipple

Herschel Ogden bought the Martinsburg Journal

Okey Patteson married Lee Hawse.

Maceo Pinkard helped set up Duke Ellington's first recording session.

The first land for the Monongahala National Forest in Pocahontas County was acquired

Jennings Randolph was elected to Salem College's board of trustees.

The Wm. M. Ritter Lumber Company acquired the Red Jacket Consolidated Coal and Coal company

Walton High School was established

Thomas Reynolds built the Majestic showboat

Weirton Steel added another sheet plant

P. D. Strausbaugh became head of the department of botany at WVU

Festus Summers earned an A.B. at WVU

Howard Sutherland's term in the U.S. Senate ended

Clint Thomas began a stint with the Philadelphia Hillsdale Giants baseball team

W. W. Trent became editor of the West Virginia School Journal

The West Virginia State Wildlife Center was established at French Creek

Ralph Weinberg married Ida Effron

Wheeling Bank & Trust Company acquired the Bank of the Ohio Valley

The Northern Teachers' Association ended

The Game and Fish Commission purchased property in Upshur County

The West Virginian Hotel was built in Bluefield

Patty Willis exhibited her work at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington, DC

Lenna Yost represented the U.S. at international congresses against alcoholism in Denmark

Hack Wilson began playing for the New York Giants

Small group of miners at Montgomery formed the Black Lung Association

Alderson-Broaddus College (now University) established the first baccalaureate physician assistant program in the country

Work began at Hungington Museum of Art on a wing designed by Walter Gropius

Greenbrier Valley Airport, Lewisburg, built

Another 36 acres was added to Bear Rock Lakes

UMWA President Tommy Boyle supported a campaign for black lung recognition at the state level

A bombing rocked the physical education building and administration at Bluefield State College (now University), briefly closing the school

Ivor Boiarsky was elected speaker of the House of Delegates

J. Lawrence Smith wrote The Potomac Naturalist

Connie Smith began concentrating on gospel music