Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad Company

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Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad Company was incorporated in West Virginia in 1898 by either a son or the estate of Charles Pratt. Its line ran 15 miles from the Kanawha River up a tributary called Paint Creek to reach new coal mining territory and land which was owned by Pratt and other investors based in New York City. Represented by attorney (and former West Virginia governor) William A. MacCorkle, industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, acting on behalf of Charles Pratt and Company, negotiated its lease to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1901 and its sale to a newly formed C&O subsidiary, Kanawha and Paint Creek Railway Company, in 1902.