Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

Swiss Immigrant David Boudon became an artist in Wheeling

Buckhannon was established

Western representatives called for a constitutional convention

John George Jackson was a promoter of the Staunton Convention

Dr. James Putney was born in Malden

Capt. Henry Shreve constructed his steamboat Washington from the timbers of Fort Henry, Wheeling

The Staunton Convention failed to meet western demands

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

Noah Ludlow bought a 25-foot flatboat

Charlestown became Wellsburg

Northwestern Bank of Virginia in Wheeling chartered

The Bank of the Valley in Virginia chartered in Winchester

Theodore Burr patented his system for covered bridges

The town Beauchamp's Mills was renamed for Elizabeth Woodland Beauchamp

Sistersville Ferry began operation from Sistersville to Fly, Ohio

Aaron Stockton bought the Glen Ferris Inn

Abner Vance fled a Russell County murder charge and took refuge in Tug Valley

John George Jackson became the president and chief stockholder of the Monongahela Navigation Company

Coal began being mined to fuel the salt works

Daniel Haymond settled at the head of the North Fork of the Hughes River

The Staunton Turnpike was chartered by the General Assembly to end at Sistersville

The Monongahela Navigation Company began efforts to construct a slack water navigation system

Weston was founded

Alfred Beckley graduated from West Point

Claude Crozet appointed state engineer of Virginia

John Jay Jackson Sr resigned his commission as a member of Andrew Jackson's staff during the Seminole War

Daniel Lamb's family moved to Wheeling

The Palladium of Virginia and the Pacific Monitor was founded in Lewisburg

James Subblefield acquired the Virginius Island property

Betty Zane died

Capt. William Jenkins moved to Green Bottom with his family

Edward Brake Jackson died

Jonathan Jackson died

John Jeremiah Jacob gave his account of Dunmore's War

Wheeling, Morgantown, Romney, Harpers Ferry, Lewisburg and Martinsburg had libraries

Anne Royall wrote Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the United States

The first steamboat arrived in Morgantown

School sessions were held regularly in Moundsville

Holly Grove was opened as a house of public entertainment

George Summers graduated from Ohio University

Alexander Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Alexander Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Martin Delany moved to Pittsburgh

Harpers Ferry Free Press became the Virginia Free Press

Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County, was laid out by Jacob Starcher

George Jackson died

Julie Neale Jackson died

Terra Salis became Malden when David Ruffner laid out lots, streets and alleys

Daniel Lamb was elected city clerk of Wheeling

A state law library was established in Lewisburg

The Western Virginian and People's Press was established in Elizabethtown

The trustees of Monongalia Academy established Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute

Anne Royall established Paul Pry newspaper in Washington

William Chapman Sr.'s Chapman Floating Theater floated down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh

Wheeling was declared an inland port of entry

Richard Whelan was ordained to the priesthood

Waitman Willey graduated from Madison College in Pennsylvania

The first class at Bethany College included international students

William Tompkins struck large flow of gas while drilling a salt well a short distance above Burning Springs

Henry Ruffner gathered with other western Virginians at a convention in Clarksburg and allied for a system of free public schools

Alexander Campbell argued for public education at the education convention in Clarksburg

Scarcity of deer first noted in present West Virginia

John Hale attended Mercer Academy in Charleston

The Northwestern Academy was established

Work commenced on the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

The Jackson family gristmill was constructed at Jackson's Mill

Nathaniel Kuykendall operated a stagecoach and mail delivery service on the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike

Robert Simmons settled in Parkersburg

Portion of the Staunton Turnpike were open to wagon travel

George Summers was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Elizabeth Tomlinson died

Charles Ward was born

John Thornton Augustine Washington died

James O. Watson married Matilda Lamb

Charles Ellet Jr was appointed chief engineer of the Fairmont Bridge

Richard Whelan was consecrated as the second bishop of the Diocese of Richmond

Waitman Willey was elected clerk of the Monongalia County Court

Asa Gray collected plants from Harpers Ferry to Tucker County en route to North Carolina

First coke made in West Virginia in Monongalia County

Martin Delany founded, edited and published the Mystery

John Echols became a lawyer

John Echols moved to Union

Thomas English wrote ballad "Ben Bolt"

Original name of Middletown was changed to Fairmont

Thomas Harris graduated with degree in medicine at Louisville

John McCausland moved to Henderson when his parents died

Alexander H. Creel established a river port village near present St. Marys, in Pleasants County

David Ruffner died

Robert Simmons married Susan King

The Potomac River flooded

Southern Baptist Convention organized

Arthur Boreman was admitted to the bar

Bruen land agents had sold a number of farm sites to northern settlers

Luke Jaco opened a tavern and stagecoach stop that was part of the Underground Railroad

Doddridge County was name in honor of Philip Doddridge

Reported three dozen primitive sawmills in present West Virginia

Town of Glenville was laid out

John Hale graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Frank Herford graduated from McKendree College, Illinois

The Great Potato Famine in Ireland pushed many Irish into the area of Western Virginia

John Jay Jackson Jr. graduated from College of New Jersey (Princeton University)

The Reeves family moved to Philippi

William McCoy built a new mill on site of the old mill

Thomas Gaylord McKell was born

The Moorefield Examiner was established

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) died

Lynnside Manor was built

George Summers left the House of Representatives

William Thurmond moved to Fayette County

The Funkhouser house was built

"Ruffner Pamphlet" published in Kanawha County

Gordon Battelle was ordained a Methodist minister

John Carlile was elected to the Virginia Senate

William Edwards was admitted to the New York bar

William Edwards published A Voyage on the River Amazon

John Floyd was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates

The Presbyterian Church was organized in Greenville

Cummins Jackson left Jackson's Mill to search for gold in CA

Joseph Johnson was elected again to the House of Delegates

Citizens of Parkersburg, Elizabeth, and Glenville organized the Little Kanawha Navigation Company

Alexander Martin graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania

Mining began in West Columbia, Mason County

Large flood occurred on the Ohio River

The Staunton to Parkersburg Turnpike was completed

Pocahontas County was formed

A group of Dutch immigrants arrived in Pocahontas County

Samuel Price was again elected to the Virginia legislature as a Whig from Greenbrier Count.

Henry Ruffner published the Address to the People of West Virginia anti-slavery pamphlet

The first Stone & Thomas Department Store opened in Wheeling

The first permanent United Brethren church was built in Sand Hill

The Buckhannon Male and Female Academy was established

A grist mill was built at Valley Falls by Bradshaw and William Whitescarver

Charles Ellet Jr. secured contracts for the Wheeling and Niagara Falls suspension bridges

Two Dutch families settled near the headwaters of the Williams River

Two turnpikes were completed in Wood County

1,500 slaves owned by salt barons or rented from owners worked in the Kanawha County salt works

Lemuel Chenoweth had finished many bridges on Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

Wills De Hass transferred the Grave Creek tablet and skull to the Smithsonian

Martin Delany finished medical school at Harvard Medical College

Fugitive Slave Act was passed

Western Virginia had 1,300 primary schools

Map showed Davidson's Ferry near mouth of Elk River and Goshorn's Ferry crossing the Kanawha River

The first courthouse was completed in Glenville

The First Baptist Church was organized in Greenville

Census reported three slaves in Hancock County

Nancy Hart and family were living in Boone County

The Virginia Constitutional Convention made changes that addressed the political sources of western discontent

Alexander Campbell supported the Fugitive Slave Law but felt runaway slaves should be provided food, shelter and clothing

The Paw Paw Tunnel opened on the C&O Canal

Reported number of slaves in Jefferson County was 3,960, 27% of the population

Mother Jones and family arrived in Boston

The new edition of A History of the Valley of Virginia was published

Malden had several hotels, a bank and saloons

Trustees offered Marshall Univ. to the Western Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

A reported 21 weeklies and 3 dailies were published in English or German in West Virginia

The C&O Canal was built to Cumberland

There were 200 residents at Federal Hill

Henry Ruffner stopped participating in the emancipation movement in Louisville

George Summers was a member of the Constitutional Convention

A large seam of bituminous coal was found on Paint Creek

Parts of Fayette County were taken to create Raleigh County

The Beall-Air Mansion was built by Lewis William Washington

Wheeling had a hospital

Waitman Willey was a delegate to the VirginiaConstitutional Convention

West Virginia had 20,527 slaves