Hopemont Sanitarium (now Hospital)

Bill to create the Department of Agriculture and Commissioner of Agriculture was passed

Alderson Academy's name was changed to Alderson Baptist Academy (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Walter Barnes received an M.A. from Harvard

Van Bittner joined the UMWA

The Board of Control was given responsibility to manage the state tuberculosis sanitarium at Terra Alta and the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home in Huntington

A. B. Brooks wrote Forestry and Wood Industries

Fire destroyed the Mountain House

155,092 pounds of chestnuts shipped from one railroad station in West Virginia

William Edwin Chilton was elected U.S. senator by state legislature

Goff Building was finished in Clarksburg

Danske Dandridge wrote American Prisoners of the Revolution

The elective Office of Agriculture Commissioner was created

Population of postal communities on Flat Top Mountain was 300

Reported 83 band mills and 900 circular mills in operation

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Berkeley Glass Sand Company was incorporated

Benjamin Franklin Gravely began designing a power-driven plow

After changing to Lewisburg Female Institute the name changed to Lewisburg Seminary (later Greenbrier College for Women)

The citizens of Guyandotte voted to become part of Huntington

A new courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

Charles Laws graduated from Leonard Medical College in North Carolina

Governor Glasscock gave Joseph Long the title colonel

Minnie Lowther published The History of Ritchie County

The earliest known road map of West Virginia was produced by a state agency

The Marlinton Opera House began use

Frank McEnteer moved to Clarksburg

Rufus G. Meador constructed a hotel at Mercer Healing Springs

Explosion at No. 20 Mine in Elk Garden killed 23 miners

Congress enacted the Weeks law which authorized the federal government to cooperate with the various states to purchase land for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams

The name of the Morgantown newspaper was changed to Weekly New Dominion

The Blue Creek oil field was discovered along the Elk River

Matthew M. Neely was elected clerk of the House of Delegates

Paden City Pottery was established

Pre-engineering and agriculture programs were added at West Virginia Preparatory School (now Potomac State)

The legislature approved the submission of another prohibition amendment to the people

The Story of a Song: What It Means to Belong to the King was published.

Rat Rodgers started at Bethany College

A streetcar line extension from Charleston to St. Albans was established

A deadlock occurred in the senate when members had to chose the U.S. Senators

The Seneca Glass Company opened a second factory in Star City

The Pythians erected an obelisk at Samuel W. Starks's grave in Spring Hill Cemetery

Clarence W. Watson began serving in the U.S. Senate

Fairview changed its name to Wayne

The West Virginia Press Association became inactive

Wings were added to Woodburn Hall at WVU

Westover was incorporated

Widen was built as a coal company town

Willard Hotel was built in Grafton

Vernon Johnson began serving in the House of Delegates

Charles Ambler's last year teaching history and political science at Randolph-Macon College

Hotel built by Harvey Ghiz in Logan

West Virginia Folklore Society became inactive

Louis Bennett Jr. graduated from Yale

First book of poetry, Green Fruit,was published by John Bishop

Florence Blanchfield enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps

Pearl Sydenstricker married John Lossing Buck

Louis Watson Chappell received his B.A. from Wake Forest

William Edwin Chilton completed his term as U.S. Senate and became publisher

U.S. government hired DuPont Company to build new nitrocellulose plant

89.4 million tons of coal produced in West Virginia

The Shenandoah (George Washington) National Forest was created

U.S. Supreme Court supported Alston Dayton's "yellow dog" contracts ruling

Legislature established the West Virginia State Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Diamond Shoe and Garment Co. received full department store status

Natural gas peaked at 309 billion cubic feet

Marion County in the Making was published

Study of German in schools dropped due to the entrance of America in WWI

Henry Hatfield entered the army medical corps as Captain

West Virginia launched a series of highway improvements with creation of the State Road Commission

The State Road Bureau was replaced by the State Road Commission

The U.S. Supreme Court sustained the lower court ruling prohibiting UMWA from seeking to influence workers from breaking yellowdog contracts

The House of Delegates grew to 94 delegates

Itmann began mining the Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam in Wyoming County

Billy Moore was born in Parkersburg

Fanny Johnson and Vincent Costello moved back to Charleston

Fanny Johnson's story "The Strange Looking Man" was included in a best short stories collection

Mother Jones returned to West Virginia to hold meetings and seek union recognition in the Fairmont and Winding Gulf coalfield

Frank Keeney became president of UMWA District 17

Harley Kilgore was commissioned a second lieutenant

The town of Nitro was established by the U.S. War Department for the manufacture of munitions for WWI

Fred Mooney became secretary-treasurer of UMWA District 17

Regents began to abolish high school courses in normal schools

The U.S. government acquired the majority of land on Otter Creek for Monongahela National Forest

The Owens Bottle Company opened a plant in the upper end of Kanawha City

William Nelson Page moved to Washington.

Pruntytown Correctional Center, near Grafton, offered eight years of education, providing a full grade-school education

The Division of Vital Statistics was established by the West Virginia Legislature.

Short lines, including the Coal & Coke Railway, became part of the B&O.

The Reymann Memorial Farm was donated to WVU as two separate farms

Rat Rodgers was named to the All-American teams

Samuel Craig Shaw became editor of the Moundsville Daily Echo

Capt. Thomas J. Reynolds built his first real showboat and named it America

Five companies merged to form the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation

The USS Huntington was equipped for early experiments in naval aviation

Commercial mining had started in Webster County

The Montgomery Preparatory School was renamed the West Virginia Trades School (now WVU Institute of Technology)

Lenna Yost became the president of the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association

Mordecai Johnson became pastor of Charleston’s First Baptist Church

Development of West Virginia's Appalachian Corridor highways began

Appalachian Regional Commission established by Congress

President Johnson's War on Poverty began

Charleston joins Morgantown and Huntington as alternating site of state high school basketball tournament

George Hodel became president of Beckley Newspapers

Bens Run Earthworks officially recorded by the Archeology Section of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

W. E. Blackhurst published Of Men and A Mighty Mountain

E. J. Scrafford became interim president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Weldon Boone wrote A History of Botany in West Virginia

Maurice Brooks published The Appalachians

Harry F. Byrd retired from the Senate

Governor Smith signed bill to end death penalty in West Virginia

Franklin Cleckley earned a J.D. from Indiana University

Arden Cogar exhibited his wood chopping at New York World's Fair

Diamond Department Store built a $1 million addition to its Charleston building

Pete Everest became brigadier general

African-American State Farm and Homemakers Council voted to join the West Virginia Homemakers Council

Gertrude Humphrey left WVU Extension work

One-volume edition of Flora of West Virginia was published

Ruth Ann Musick published The Telltale Lilac Bush

Ruel Foster wrote Jesse Stuart

Per capita personal income in West Virginia was 76% of national average

The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation made its first discretionary grant, to Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

State Route 150, the Highland Scenic Highway, began construction

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) was established

Hope Natural Gas Company and New York State Natural Gas Corporation merged to form Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation

Blasingame Report recommending improved library service was completed

The West Virginia Library Commission launched an ambitious library construction project

A joint committee was created to study and survey matters of government, finance, and claims against the state and make recommendations to the full legislature

The Logan Banner was sold to a Tennessee publishing company

Marco mascot first began showing up at Marshall University events

Dan Maroney was elected a vice president in the Amalgamated Transit Union

Paul Marshall stopped working at Libbey-Owens-Ford in Kanawha City

Morgantown Glassware Guild was purchased by Fostoria Glass

Mount Storm Lake was built to supply water for steam generation at coal-fired power plant

Mylan Pharmaceuticals moved to Morgantown

The last coke-making operation in the New River Gorge closed at Sewell

Delf Norona became the first recipient of the Sigfus Olafson Award for his outstanding contributions to the West Virginia archeology

E. Lewis Case became president of Ohio Valley College (now Ohio Valley University)

Ohio Valley College (now University) was accredited by the state of West Virginia

Congress created the 100,000 acre Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area.

Jack Rollins moved to Cincinnati

The Soupy Sales Show first debuted nationally

Burl Sawyers resigned as state roads commissioner under indictment

Charles Town Race Track installed lighting

Smoke Hole became part of the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area

Red Sovine wrote "Giddyup Go"

Miles Stanley was selected as personal assistant to AFL-CIO President George Meany

Fred Torrey made a bust of John F. Kennedy

U.S. combat troops first deployed in the Vietnam War

The War on Poverty was scaled back due to the escalation of the Vietnam War

Don West came to West Virginia and established the Appalachian South Folklife Center

Charles Schiff became conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra