Editing Rainelle, West Virginia (section)

==History==
[[File:Army National Guard deivers water to Greenbrier County 120703-F-NH898-125.jpg|thumb|Army National Guard delivers water after a [[June 2012 North American derecho|severe storm in 2012]]]] 
The valley and community that contain and predates Rainelle is named Sewell Valley after Stephen Sewell, a scout that settled in the area in the 1750s.<ref>{{cite web|title=The West Virginia Encyclopedia "Marlin and Sewell."|year=2015|url=https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1508 }}</ref> The community west of the Meadow River first applied for the name Raine in honor of the Raine family but was turned down by the Post Office Department. They adopted the name Rainelle in 1909.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=543;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=517}}</ref> Thomas W. Raine and his brother John moved to the location from [[Pennsylvania]] in 1906 to harvest a large stand of hardwoods for building homes, etc. Their [[Meadow River Lumber Company]] operated for 60 years, and at one time was the largest hardwood sawmill in the world. In 1970, the owners sold it to [[Georgia-Pacific]] Corporation, which tore it down in 1975.<ref name=MeadowRiver>{{citation| url=http://www.blueridgecountry.com/archive/meadow-river-lumber-company.html| title=Meadow River Lumber Company| publisher=Blue Ridge Country| date=January–February 2005| access-date=August 1, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114175817/http://blueridgecountry.com/archive/meadow-river-lumber-company.html| archive-date=January 14, 2010}}</ref>

The town has suffered from several natural disasters in the last decade: most notable of these have been the [[June 2012 North American derecho]], [[Hurricane Sandy]], and the [[2016 West Virginia flood]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wiederspiel|first1=Alex|title=Rainelle natives and mayor uncertain of what’s next after flash flood|url=http://wvmetronews.com/2016/06/25/rainelle-natives-and-mayor-uncertain-of-whats-next-after-flash-flood/|website=[[West Virginia MetroNews]]|access-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref> Rebuilding and demolition of structures damaged in the 2016 flood was still in progress in January 2020. Homes rebuilt with funds from the federal Hazard Mitigation Grant program were required to be sited two feet above the 100-year floodplain.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://wfpl.org/after-deadly-floods-west-virginia-created-a-resiliency-office-its-barely-functioning/|title=W.Va.'s Resiliency Office Is Barely Functioning|last=Peterson|first=Erica|date=January 27, 2020|website=89.3 WFPL News Louisville|language=en-US|access-date=February 11, 2020}}</ref>