Editing Meadow Bridge, West Virginia (section)

==History==

Sometime in 1890, the first Meadow Bridge post office was established, and gave the area the name of Montrode. This was later changed to Clute, after the Virginia lumberman [[Theodore Clute]], who came with the railroad to establish a sawmill in the area. With the help of the Meadow River Lumber company, and Theodore Clute, millions of feet of lumber were cut, and soon a town sprang up with shops and houses.

With industry in Meadow Bridge, on July 26, 1920, it was incorporated into an official town. Although industry came to the small town of Meadow Bridge, progress was slow and arduous. After several years of hard fighting, in 1924, they finally were able to bring a high school to the town, [[Meadow Bridge High School]].

Part of their troubles was that they were isolated from the rest of Fayette County. That changed in 1937, when a seven-mile stretch of road was hard-surfaced, linking Meadow Bridge and the nearby town of [[Danese, West Virginia|Danese]]. In 1938, a road linking the town of [[Hinton, West Virginia|Hinton]] and [[Rainelle, West Virginia|Rainelle]] ran through Meadow Bridge, linking all the towns together and, by extension, to [[West Virginia Route 41|Route 41]]. This finally gave Meadow Bridge a path to the western part of Fayette County.