River Crossing

Historical marker location:

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

( Marker is on North Duke Street / Shepherdstown Pike (State Highway 480), on the right when traveling north.)

Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

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.