"Prato Rio"

Historical marker location:

11230 Leetown Rd, Kearneysville, West Virginia

( Marker is on Kearneysville-Virginia Line Road, ½ mile west of Leestown Pike, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1970

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.