Paw Paw / Paw Paw Tunnel / The Fruit

Historical marker location:

Paw Paw, West Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of West Virginia Route 9 and Winchester Street, on the right when traveling east on State Route 9. Reported unreadable.)

Washington Heritage Trail.

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.