Joseph Booth

Historical marker location:

137 North Washington Street, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

( Marker is on Cacapon Road (West Virginia Route 9) west of North Washington Street (U.S. 522), on the right when traveling east.)

Lot #118.

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.