Thornton Tayloe Perry / Thornton Tayloe Perry II

Historical marker location:

2142 Mission Rd, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

( Marker is on Shannondale Springs Road just north of Mission Road (County Road 9/5), on the left 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.