Editing Rivesville, West Virginia (section)

==History==

The area was populated by some of the earliest settlers to the area, with the safety of [[Prickett's Fort]] sitting directly across the [[Monongahela River]]. [[David Morgan (frontiersman)]] moved there in 1772. That's also the location where he saved his family from an attack by Indians in 1778, based on a fevered dream he had, while recuperating from an illness at the fort. The house still stands there in Rivesville.<ref>{{citation|last=Ruth|first=Frances D.|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Morgan-Gold House. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.}}</ref> Now known as the Morgan-Gold House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.<ref>{{citation| title=National Register Information System, National Register of Historic Places|publisher= National Park Service |date=March 13, 2009}}</ref>

Rivesville was [[plat]]ted in 1837, and named after [[William Cabell Rives]].<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=559;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=533}}</ref>

In 1900, it was a very small town, population 164, growing to 190 in 1910. This was immediately before the development of large-scale coal mining in the area and the subsequent population growth.<ref>Ray V. Hennen, David B. Berger, I.C. White, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hf5LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA661 West Virginia Geological Survey, Marion, Monongalia and Taylor Counties], Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling, 1913, page 35.</ref>

In the early 20th century, Rivesville was at the junction between the Pawpaw branch of the [[B&O Railroad]] and the Buckhannon & Northern Railroad, a branch of the [[Pittsburgh and Lake Erie]] a predecessor that was incorporated into the [[Monongahela Railway]] formed in 1915.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wvrail.railfan.net/mga_past.html |title=The History of the Monongahela Coalfields - 1900 to the Present |access-date=October 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509143010/http://www.wvrail.railfan.net/mga_past.html |archive-date=May 9, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Rivesville was also served by the Fairmont-Clarksburg Division of the Monongahela-West Pen Railways, originally the Monongahela Power and Railway Company.  This electric [[interurban]] line ran from [[Fairmont, West Virginia|Fairmont]] through Rivesville to the Rivesville Power Station, just north of town.<ref>[http://wbhearn.com/Trolley/monwpr/WV/wvpage004.html Monongahela - West Pen] part of [http://wbhearn.com/Trolley/bills_trolley_home_page.html Bill's Trolley Pages]</ref>