The Coal Barons

Historical marker location:

Whipple Junction, West Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Okey L Patterson Road (West Virginia Route 612) and Scarbro Road (Route 1/5), on the right when traveling east on Okey L Patterson Road.)

Coal Heritage Trail National Coal Heritage Area Interpretive Site.

The first electric railroad in the world was built in West Virginia in 1888. The line ran between Huntington and Guyandotte and was powered by electricity generated from a hydroelectric plant on the Ohio River.