Flashback: What Happened on March 20, ....
• 1837 The Virginia General Assembly passed an act authorizing Robert Duffield Braxton County to construct a dam on his property on the Elk River opposite Green Island in Nicholas County.
• 1837 The Virginia General Assembly passed an act authorizing Andrew Sterrett to construct a dam on the Elk River at the Bee Run shoal in Braxton County.
• 1847 The Virginia General Assembly passed an act authorizing an election to determine whether the Gilmer County would be located in DeKalb or Glenville.
• 1847 The Virginia General Assembly passed an act which incorporated the Lewis County Seminary in Weston. Subscription books were opened in Weston under the direction of the following commissioners: John Lorentz, Lewis Maxwell, Cabell Tavenner, Jonathan M. Bennett, Newton B. Barnes, Addison McLaughlin, and John McGee.
• 1860 The Virginia General Assembly passed an act increasing the capital stock of the Gilmer, Ripley and Ohio Turnpike Company to fund the construction of a bridge across the Little Kanawha River at Glenville, Gilmer County.
• 1866 The Equitable Oil and Mining Company was incorporated in West Virginia by the following: Robert H. Waters, Luther H. Felton, William W. Morland, Henry S. Jones, Richard H. Salter, Francis McLaughlin, Joseph A. Laforme. The company’s purpose was to extract oil in Lewis County with main office in Boston, MA.
• 1915 The State Farm Bureau established the Jackson County Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• 1973 A riot broke out at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, Marshall County. It ended the following day, after one inmate had been killed and two others had been wounded.
• 1980 Consolidation Coal Company was reinstated in the Bituminous Coal Opearators Association, with 9 major companies receiving veto power in contract negotiations.
• 1992 President Bush vetoed the United States Senate bill proposed by Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia to bail out the UMW health fund by, in part, charging non-union coal operators to pay into the fund.
• 1995 Kanawha County school board approves $153 million budget.