 This line was originally part of the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad.A second line, originally part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and now part of CSX, follows the course of the Ohio River for the length of the county, traveling through the northern part of Cooper District on its way from Huntington to Parkersburg.Until the early twentieth century, a ferry carried passengers across the Ohio between Letart and Letart Falls; another operated on the Kanawha River between Debby and Beech Hill.