Clash at Corricks Ford

Historical marker location:

400 Poplar St, Parsons, West Virginia

( Marker is on Poplar Street, 0.1 miles south of Mill Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Death of Garnett. The First Campaign.

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.