Smith and Forging Shop

Historical marker location:

120 Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Potomac Street, 0.1 miles north of Shenandoah Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.