Blaine Island

Matthew Arbuckle became first settler in Lewisburg

Boling Baker led band of Shawnees to steal horses from Bluestone River area

Aracoma and her husband Boling Baker were killed by white men

Settlement in present Barbour County began

Castle Rock formation in Pineville reported

Horatio Gates was defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, SC

Charles Washington came to present Jefferson County

Charles Washington built Happy Retreat, at Charles Town

Settlers built their adjoining houses in a rectangle in Harrison County two miles west of Nutter's Fort

Congress dismissed Charles Lee from the army after insulting letters to Congress

Chief Logan was killed, allegedly by a nephew

Methodists establish the earliest class on the Greenbrier Circuit in Union

John Stuart was name clerk of Greenbrier County

Henry St. George Tucker Sr was born

Thomas Walker surveyed the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina

Governor Thomas Jefferson granted 250 acres at Burning Springs in Kanawha County jointly to Washington and Andrew Lewis

Ostenaco died in eastern Tennessee

Alderson Federal Prison Camp opened as the Federal Industrial Institution for Women

Mary Meek Atkeson wrote The Shining Hours

Wertz Field Charleston area's first airport near Dunbar constructed

Fokker Aircraft of America opened in Glen Dale

Historical novel, The Scout of the Buckongehanon, was written by J. C. McWhorter

Charleston Daily Mail moved quarters to new building at 1001 Virginia Street East

The DuPont plant at Belle began making synthetic wood alcohol

Clarksburg's Exponent and Telegram newspapers merged under Clarksburg Publishing Company

North Central Association fully accredited the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State University)