Railroad Avenue, Ronceverte, WV - 1908

 

From a village of three houses, which owed its birth to the construction of the railroad, Ronceverte evolved into a good business town.  The site of the new town, incorporated in 1882, was partly determined by the needs of the old county seat of Lewisburg, which was located several miles from the railway route.  In 1900, coincident with the opening of the Greenbrier division of the C. & O. its second bank began business.  The electric railway connecting Lewisburg and Ronceverte was completed and in 1909.

(Source: History of West Virginia, Old and New, 1923)