Stockert Building / People's Grocery & Home Hardware

Historical marker location:

29 E Main St, Buckhannon, West Virginia

( Marker is on East Main Street (County Road 151) just east of North Spring Street, on the right when traveling east.)

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.