Sumner School

Jacob Blair and his two congressional colleagues met at the White House to discuss West Virginia admission into the Union with President Lincoln

President Lincoln decided in favor of statehood

George Imboden rose to the rank of colonel and took command of the of the 18th Virginia Calvary

Confederate General Stonewall Jackson based his forces in Berkeley Springs during his attack on Hancock, Maryland

Congress enacted the Morrill Act

Belle Boyd carried news of Union plans to Stonewall Jackson during the Shenandoah Valley campaign

John Carlile turned against statehood, which he had favored

John Echols served in the Kanawha Valley

John Hale served as a surgeon in the Civil War

A Natural gas well was first drilled in Hancock County

Nancy Hart was captured a second time as a rebel spy in Summersville

Collis P. Huntington persuaded Congress to designate the Central Pacific as the western half of the transcontinental railroad

Stonewall Jackson led a successful campaign in the Shenandoah Valley

Albert Jenkins was elected to the First Confederate Congress

Jacob Cox and men were driven out of the Kanawha Valley by Confederate advance led by Brig. Gen William W. Loring

U.S. troops were maneuvering from Western Virginia toward Tennessee

Joseph Lightburn was ordered to Charleston

City of Logan was occupied and burned by Union forces under Col. Edward Siber

Company 1, 12th Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry was organized in New Cumberland

The Point Pleasant Register was founded as a weekly

John Nugent was born in Wales

Federal troops occupied Raleigh County.

The Confederate Thurmond's Parisan Rangers raided in Fayette, Greenbrier and Monroe counties

Peter Van Winkle represented Wood County in Constitutional Convention

The Reorganized Government of Virginia added $40,000 for Weston State Hospital

There were 250 churches in West Virginia

Capt. John M. Burns established a sawmill at Burnsville

Jefferson and Berkeley confirmed as West Virginia by U.S. Congress

Henry Gassaway Davis received charter to build the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway

Dickinson-Shrewsbury partnership dissolved by the courts after partners died

Private school for black children, in Parkersburg, was converted to a public school

J. N. Boyd began publication of Vedette in Fairmont

Three men were hanged on the "hanging tree" at Fort Boreman

Freedmen's Bureau began operation in West Virginia

Grantsville was laid out

Grant County was formed from Hardy County

Morris Harvey and brother-in-law received a land grant from West Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River

The Radical-dominated legislature enacted the Voters' Registration Law

John Joseph Kain was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Richmond

The Buckhannon home of George Latham was purchased

A new shop complex was built in Martinsburg, with roundhouse

Elizabethtown and Moundsville were consolidated under Moundsville

Free schools were established in Moundsville

The multiflora rose was introduced to the eastern U.S. as rootstock for ornamental roses

The North Bend superintendent's residence was built by Christopher Douglas

Samuel Price became a director of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

George Lemon died

Sumner School became West Virginia's earliest black public school

H.M. Calhoun was born

Samuel W. Starks was born in Charleston

Ceredo was incorporated

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway was chartered under the name of the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company

Archibald Campbell left the Wheeling Intelligencer

William H. Davis became a teacher for Malden’s Black children

Babcock Lumber Company founded in Pittsburgh

Fourth capital building was finished and legislature moved in

Cheat Mountain Club built by Cheat Mountain Sportsmen's Association

C&O Railroad forced into receivership again

Clarksburg laid first 6 miles of water lines

J. R. Clifford became first black admitted to practice law before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Justus Collins organized Louisville Coal & Coke Company in Mercer County

Dan Cunningham was part of group that murdered Rev. Tom Ryan

Fostoria Glass Company began in Fostoria, Ohio

William Glasscock became superintendent of schools

The seat of Cabell County was moved to Huntington from Barboursville

Waitman T. Linger started making chairs at Beans Mill

Daniel Lucas was nominated as U.S. Senator by Governor Wilson

Perry Cline persuaded the governor of Kentucky to prosecute the Hatfields for murdering three of Randolph McCoy's sons

C.F. Millspaugh published the last section of American Medicinal Plants

The first West Virginia mining law was passed and regarded as the nation's weakest

State laws were strengthened following the Mountain Brook mine disaster that claims 39 lives

George Peterkin founded the Sheltering Arms Hospital.

Legislature authorized building of Spencer State Hospital to relieve overcrowding at Weston State Hospital

Electric streetcars began to be used in Wheeling

The original stone structure at Tray Run was replaced by a viaduct

The West Virginia Wesleyan College was established in Buckhannon

Helvetia built its first steam sawmill

Western Maryland Railway was completed to Cumberland

167th moved to Martinsburg

Huntington's Memorial Field House hosted the state boys basketball tournament

Bluestone State Park joined state park system

Clarksburg constructed Buffalo Lake

Legislature considered declaring TV cable companies to be public utilities subject to regulation by Public Service Commission

Sutton Dam completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Cedar Creek State Park joined state park system

Petersburg fish hatchery noticed different color trout in hatchery's rainbow trout

Judge Ben Moore ruled against racial discrimination at Sky Chief Restaurant at Kanawha (now Yeager) Airport

The black bear became the state animal

Croatian Cultural Club founded in Benwood

Mutation of normal-colored rainbow trout was discovered

Lester Hayes Jr. caught a 52.5 inch, 43 pound muskie in the Elk River

Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football

The Night of the Hunter was adapted to film

Elizabeth Hallanan became a member of the State Board of Education

Storer College was closed

William Hoffman wrote his first novel, The Trumpet Unblown

All institutions of higher learning in West Virginia except Glenville State had enrolled African-American students

Coach Cam Henderson left Marshall College (now University)

Bernard McDonough bought the O. Ames Company in Parkersburg

Logan County surpassed McDowell County as the leading coal producing county in the nation

Mildred Mitchell-Bateman was invited to return to Lakin State Hospital after leaving to further studies

Green Bank was chosen for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Pardee & Curtin built the first all-electric single-band sawmill in the state at Curtin, Webster County.

Otis Rice served as president of the West Virginia Historical Society

Leonard Riggleman became the Charleston Gazette's West Virginia Man of the Year

West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission adopted its current name

West Virginia State and Bluefield State integrated the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

William P. Tams retired

Theatre West Virginia was founded as the West Virginia Historical Drama Association

Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) built its first dormitory

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations combined as AFL-CIO

Billy Edd Wheeler received a B.A. in English from Berea College

Lawrence R. McHugh, S.J. became president of Wheeling College (now Wheeling University)

George Wolfe was discharged from the army

The 130th Troop Carrier Squadron (130th Airlift Squadron) was formed

The West Virginia Lobotomy Project ended

The Sugar Grove site was selected for a radio telescope

Tunney Hunsaker moved to Fayetteville