John Brown

Old Main campus construction began at Bethany College

The Blue Sulphur Springs resort property was sold to the Western Virginia Baptist Association

Martin Delany aided John Brown in convening the Chatham Convention

Henry Gassaway Davis left the B&O

Delta Tau Delta was founded at Bethany College

Weston College was chartered

Marshall College was established from Marshall Academy

George Imboden was admitted to the bar

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

Margery Lewis Kenna moved her family to Missouri after the shooting of her husband

General Assembly amended the act of incorporation

Presbyterians established the Woodburn Female Seminary in Morgantown

Z. D. Ramsdell relocated to Ceredo.

The second courthouse at Ripley was built

Robert Simmons had fathered nine children

Spencer was chartered

The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike opened

McDowell County seat was at Perryville

Weston was chosen for the site of Virginia's third mental hospital

Construction began on Weston State Hospital

John Edwin Cook visited Lewis W. Washington at Beall-Air mansion

Lewis William Washington became John Brown's hostage at Harpers Ferry