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A nineteenth century wagon road once ran here, parallel to the present Service Road. Before the Monongahela River was dammed, low water levels often allowed horse-drawn wagons to ford the river, and this road gave farmers from the Evansdale area a route for carrying produce to Granville and other residential villages across the river. Builders who mined gravel from the riverbed also used the road. After 1879, damming of the Monongahela raised water levels, made river fording impossible, and left the riverbed silty. In 1948, Evansdale's last large farms became the site of the second campus of West Virginia University.
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