Spruce Knob

Newton Diehl Baker served as a director of the Cleveland Trust Company and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Walter Barnes became president of the West Virginia Education Association

The Beckley Register began publishing twice a week

Bluefield became the second city in the nation to adopt the city manager form of local government via charter

International Nickel Company plant opened

Blenko Glass established in Milton

State Capitol Commission was created

Louis W. Chappell received appointment in English Department at WVU

Drs. Romie and W. F. Walker's stately home on Virginia Street in Charleston became the Mountain State Hospital

The Viscose Company established a plant in Nitro

West Virginia legislature enacted anti-lynching legislation

The Game and Fish Commission was created by the legislature

John W. Davis resigned as ambassador to England

John W. Davis began law practice in New York

Levi Dean became the 19th architect licensed under the West Virginia licensing law

Dunbar was incorporated

John Easton became VP of West Virginia State Federation of Labor

Governor Morgan appointed first woman, Lenna Lowe Yost, to serve on the state Board of Education

William H. "Teepi" Kendrick established and directed the first state 4-H camp in the U.S. at Jackson's Mill

Fairmont High Level Bridge was open for traffic

The Glen Rogers Mine opened as one of the state's largest

Legislature expanded the state road commission to three members and classified all roads as state or county roads

Howard Gore was hired by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a plan for government marketing of livestock and livestock products

Federal Highway Act directed each state to recommend for federal designation a connected road system

Frank Keeny and 550 others were indicted for murder and treason after the Miners' March on Logan

Harold Houston represented the UMWA leaders who were accused of treason during the Battle of Blair Mountain

Interwoven Mills had opened branch plants in Hagerstown, Maryland, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and Berkeley Springs

Jackson's Mill became the location of West Virginia's state 4-H Camp

Musa Kaleem was born Orlando Wright in Wheeling

Herman Kump was elected mayor of Elkins

Supreme Court ruling Ex parte Lavinder moderately tempered the power of the executive branch to use martial law

Reported 99 out of 124 members of the West Virginia Legislature were Republicans

Clarence Frey came to Logan County

Ned Cline was born

Joseph Long left the Huntington postmaster position

Occupation of the present courthouse in Madison began

Mannington was incorporated as a city

Marshall College awarded its first baccalaureate degrees

Walter Martens moved to West Virginia and opened an architecture practice in Charleston

Louis Marx & Company acquired toy manufacturing facilities of its own

John Matheus received an A.M. degree from Columbia

Annie Brake of Valley Head began midwifery

The Fairmont Electric Light and Power Plant changed its name to Monongahela Power and Railway Company

Sawmill at Hominy Falls was moved to mouth of Deer Creek.

The West Virginia Preparatory School (now Potomac State) became a junior college and began offering the first two years of the baccalaureate programs and certain vocational programs

Funding for maternal and child health began in West Virginia

Benjamin Rosenbloom began representing the First Congressional District

The Franciscan Sisters of St. Francis Hospital in Charleston were recalled to New York

Morris Shawkey became superintendent of Beaver Pond School District of Bluefield

The West Virginia State Fair was founded by the Shorthorn Association as Greenbrier Valley Fair

Greenbrier Valley Fair was first held

State police helped defend Logan County in the Miner's March

State Police field structure grew to four companies

West Virginia replaced the corporate excise tax with a business gross receipts tax

Clint Thomas joined the Lincoln Giants baseball team in New York

T. C. Townsend was hired by the UMWA to defend miners and union leaders in the March on Logan

W. W. Trent received an A.M from Columbia University

St. Joseph's Hospital (Upshur County) was founded by the Pallottine Missionary Sisters

Architect H. Rus Warne established a partnership of Warne, Tucker and Patterson was established

The Watoga Land Association was organized

Huntington expanded corporate limits into Wayne County

Phil Conley began working with the American Constitutional Association

The Engineering Experimental State was established at WVU

The Schmulbach Building building was taken over by the Wheeling Steel Corporation

Wheeling Steel began providing company housing for its coke plant workers

Williamstown was incorporated

The West Virginia Trades School became the New River State School (now WVU Institute of Technology)

Cyrus H. Martin became president of New River State School (now WVU Institute of Technology)

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

Hack Wilson started his pro career playing for the Martinsburg Blue Sox

Raleigh County Memorial Airport built

Charleston baseball joined the American Association, class AAA

Henry Lake Dickason retired as president of Bluefield State Teachers College (now University)

The Lilly Brothers of Raleigh County relocated to Boston

Widen was scene of fatal labor confrontation

Consolidated Bus Lines traveled 5,873,468 miles

Virginia Ruth "Dagmar" Egnor began own variety show, Dagmar's Canteen

John W. Davis argued for the continuation of racial segregation in South Carolina before the U.S. Supreme Court Briggs v. Elliot, later Brown v. Board of Education

John Warren Davis accepted a U.S. government appointment in Liberia

A wing to the Denmar Hospital building was completed

Fairmont State College president George W. Hand lost his position by refusing to fire Luella Raab Mundell

Ann Kathryn Flagg resigned her teaching position at Dunbar High School in Fairmont and became director of Children's Theater in Cleveland

U.S. Forest Service published reports on West Virginia Forests

Report stated that 64% of the state was forested

Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football

The Health and Physical Education Building at Glenville State College was dedicated

Original Mound Museum opened at Grave Creek Mound

K. K. Hall became circuit judge of West Virginia's 25th Judicial Circuit

Joseph Hodges was made an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Richmond

Johnnie Johnson moved to St. Louis and hired Chuck Berry to be in the Johnnie Johnson Trio

The 167th Fighter Squadron returned to West Virginia

The current number of members was established for the House of Delegates

The Wheeling Downs racetrack and other assets of Big Bill Lias were seized by the federal government

Library service was improved with creation of regional library systems

Hobert Skidmore wrote The Years Are Even

Lock No. 1 on the Big Sandy was closed

Walter Martens became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a distinctive honor

The Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad was merged into the New York Central System

Walter Reuther was elected president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations

Jack Rollins wrote "Smokey the Bear"

WVU's Mark Workman became All-American in basketball

Jim Sprouse began serving with the Central Intelligence Agency

P. D. Strausbaugh published Part One of Flora of West Virginia

Planning for Sutton Dam was suspended because of Korean War

WSAZ-TV in Huntington became channel 3

S. A. Abram began redevelopment of the old seminary grounds at Hilltop, near Oak Hill in Fayette County

The Bluestone Dam and Lake was completed

A strike at Widen occurred

Virginia Mae Brown was named West Virginia’s first woman assistant attorney general