Ralph Swinburn

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

The last bridges were made on the Staunton Turnpike

George Summers was a member of the Constitutional Convention

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

Gordon Battelle was appointed as the presiding elder of Clarksburg District of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Bethany College forced to dismiss several abolitionists after political discussions were banned

Arthur Boreman was elected as a Whig to the General Assembly

Archibald Campbell graduated from Hamilton College Law School in New York

Craig-Patton House became property of Col. George Smith Patton

Rector College in Western Virginia was destroyed by fire

Rifled muskets were being built at the Harpers Ferry Armory

Maurice Sullivan purchased land from John Gwinn on Irish Mountain

Weston's first school was built

Eight locks and dams were built on the Coal River

William Rosecrans began working as superintendent of a cannel coal company in Kanawha County

Samuel Tanner's log cabin was torn down in Spencer, Roane County

Ammi B. Young designed the Wheeling Custom House.

The B&O leased the Northwestern Virginia Railroad

A troupe presented "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at The Atheneum

Belle Boyd was sent to Mount Washington School in Baltimore

Archibald Campbell moved to Wheeling

William Edwards erected the first cannel coal oil works

Thomas English moved from Logan County to Tazewell, Virginia

Glenville was incorporated

Grafton was chartered

Hamilton Hatter was born in Jefferson County

Andrew Gardner Jackson was born

George Smith Patton moved to Charleston and organized the Kanawha Riflemen

Daniel Lucas graduated from University of Virginia

Mannington was chartered as a town by the Virginia legislature

The city of Mason was incorporated

Henry Mathews graduated from University of Virginia

The Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy moved to a new building

Oglebay Park Mansion Museum property was purchased by George W. Smith

Piedmont was chartered

Francis Pierpont helped found the Fairmont Male and Female Seminary.

A B&O station was located at Cairo

The Walton post office moved to Droddyville

The first church was built in the St. Joseph Settlement

William Stevenson was elected a member of the Pennsylvania legislature

Wheeling Hospital moved to the Michael Sweeney Mansion

The Intelligencer was acquired by Archibald Campbell

Congresswoman Elizabeth Kee was born at Radford, Virginia