Flashback: What Happened on March 07, ....
• 1834 - The Virginia General Assembly passed an act declaring Mill Creek in Jackson County to be a public highway.
• 1849 - The Virginia General Assembly passed an act which incorporated the Philippi and Buckhannon Turnpike Company to construct a road from Philippi in Barbour County to Buckhannon in Lewis County, present-day Upshur County. Subscription books were opened under the direction of the following commissioners: in Philippi, under Lair D. Morrall, Edwin D. Wilson, Charles S. Hall, Isaac H. Strickler, and Elam D. Tolbert; and in Buckhannon, under D. S. Hazelden, Mifflin Lorentz, James Miller, George Bastable, and George W. Miller.
• 1866 - The United States Congress validated the inclusion of Jefferson County and Berkeley County in the state of West Virginia.
• 1873 - The governor approved an act authorizing cemetery associations to sell land for other purposes than burial.
• 1881 - The first African-American Baptist Church in Wheeling, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, was opened on Tenth Street.
• 1891 - The West Virginia Legislature passed an act regulating the construction of booms. It was approved by the governor on March 12.
• 1891 - The West Virginia Legislature passed an act regulating the use of scrip to pay employees, stating that the scrip must be redeemable for legal tender. It became law without the approval of the governor on March 19. In 1889, the State Supreme Court had overturned a similar law. However, since that time, Daniel B. Lucas and Homer A. Holt had joined the court and upheld this new law against the opposition of Judges Henry Brannon and John W. English.
• 1950 - West Virginia University head basketball coach Lee Patton was killed in an automobile accident.
• 1960 - African-American students from Bluefield State College picketed outside the Colonial Theater and the Granada Theater in Bluefield, Mercer County, in protest of their segregated seating policies.
• 1973 - In a report to the West Virginia Legislature, the United States Bureau of Mines stated that none of the large coal slag pile dams in West Virginia were as dangerous as those suggested the previous year following the Buffalo Creek Flood.
• 1995 - Kanawha County Commission declares Friday a holiday, costing taxpayers $100,000.