James McNeil Stephenson

John Gallaher established the Harpers Ferry Free Press

Workers completed construction on the National Road

General Assembly authorized each county to establish district school system with limited state aid

Monroe County opened free school at Sinks Grove

Alexander Clendenin died

Charles Faulkner married Mary W. Boyd

John Floyd graduated from South Carolina College

Felix Grundy was appointed to the U.S. Senate

The South Branch Intelligencer was founded

The Virginia Constitutional Convention failed to meet western demands

The Eclectic Observer was founded in Wheeling

Jesse Hughes died at Turkey Run

Completion of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike to the Ohio River was authorized by the General Assembly

Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class from West Point

William Fletcher received 20 acres of land in Welch

The state of Virginia began blasting and excavating shoals in the Kanawha River including the Red House shoal.

Phillip R. Thompson laid out the town of Phillipi

Baptist-affiliated Rector College opened in Western Virginia

The Glen Ferris Inn was first used as an inn

The Ellicott brothers purchased the Jackson ironworks and the Henry Clay Furnace

John Jacob moved to Romney after father's death

The first museum at Grave Creek Mound opened

The town of New Cumberland was laid out by John Cuppy

Peter Tarr died

Sistersville was incorporated

The Tomlinson mansion was built

Artist James E. Taylor was born in Cincinnati

Report of Salt Rock petroglyphs included in Smithsonian Institution's "Contributions to Knowledge"

Bids authorized on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike

Rebecca Davis graduated from the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary

William Eagle died

First county and circuit courts of Wirt County met in "Old Red Brick"

The Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike was completed

John Floyd was elected governor

German immigration increased from desire to escape persecution during European Revolutions

The first German newspaper was established in Wheeling

The Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike was completed

Joseph H. Gill surveyed the Guyandotte River from its mouth to Gilbert Creek

The Ellicott Brothers business failed

C. P. Huntington went to California with the gold rush to sell supplies to miners

A Catholic Church was established at Sand Fork

John Jay Jackson Jr. served as prosecuting attorney of Wirt County

Daniel Lamb became the cashier of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia at Wheeling

A single lock and dam was built on the Elk River

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis published Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy was founded

Francis Pierpont began an association with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

A massive fire and flood doomed Creel's village to an early death

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates

Bancroft was settled

Henry Ruffner resigned as president of Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. died

Cabell, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties provided infantry regiments for service in the Mexican-American War