Attack on Glenville

Historical marker location:

200 High Street, Glenville, West Virginia

( Marker is on Pioneer Way (County Route 5/3) 0.2 miles east of North Court Street, on the right when traveling east.)

"...the birds had flown". Jenkins's Raid.

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.