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irst steamboat on the Great Kanawha, the Robert Thompson, ascends the river from Point Pleasant to Red House shoals......1819 John Brown, seeking to free the slaves, captures Harper's Ferry......Oct. 16-17, 1859 Petroleum discovered at Burning Springs, on the north bank of the Kanawha......1860 First public Union meeting in West Virginia, declaring against secession, held at Preston......Nov. 12, 1860 Forty-six delegates from what is now West Virginia, vote on the ordinance of secerough the Kanawha Valley, pursued by Confederates under General Loring......1862 Congress admits West Virginia into the Union from June 20, 1863......Dec. 31, 1862 Confederates under General Jones burn 100,000 barrels of petroleum at Burning Springs......May 9, 1863 Inauguration of new State government takes place at Wheeling......June 20, 1863 Supreme Court of Appeals organized at Wheeling......July 9, 1863 Gen. W. W. Averill defeats Maj. John Echols in battle of Droop Mountai