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16 Οκτ 2024 · First Railroad * West Virginia's first railroad entered its borders decades before it officially became a state (June 20, 1863) when the Baltimore & Ohio arrived in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in January, 1837 (following a completion of a bridge spanning the Potomac River).
A customized not to scale map of the Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad from Charleston to Hitop. Selected town and place names are listed as well as the successor railroads to the K&WV that paralleled the Elk River and Blue Creek for its total length.
A comparison of the maps of West Virginia in various editions of those atlases reveals much about the rapid development of new towns, roads, and railroads during the latter decades of the 19th century. All of these maps, however, were superseded by Rand McNally's new map of West Virginia produced around 1899.
Custom diagram map of the Winifrede Railroad layout and its relationship to the Kanawha River. An operation virtually unchanged in more than 130 years and remains so today under the banner of the Big Eagle Railroad.
Download Data. Historical Railroad Systems GIS Files. Right click on a link below and save the file as a .kml file. To view these files, you may also need to download Google Earth. Note that all railroad data in this project are in development and will be updated as inconsistencies are discovered and corrected.
Discover the past of West Virginia through State maps in our online collection of old historical maps that span over 150 years of growth. View West Virginia Maps such such as historical county boundaries changes, old vintage maps, as well as road / highway maps for all 87 counties in West Virginia.