West Virginia

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  • King James Grants charter that includes what is now West Virginia.

  • Morgan ap Morgan becomes area's first white settler with cabin at Bunker Hill.

  • George Washington surveys western Virginia land.

  • West Virginia becomes the nation's 35th state.

  • West Virginia won't reunite with Virginia at end of Civil war

  • Capital is moved to Charleston, where it remains today

  • U.S Supreme Court rules West Virginia owes Virginia debt from when it separated in 1863

  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory begins

  • West Virginia legislature passes environmental laws

  • West Virginia enters the 21st century

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