Established as the Raine-Andrew Lumber Company through John and Tom Raine's purchase of 32,000 acres in 1906-08, the concern helped give Rainelle, founded in 1908, its name. It used a logging railroad from the woods to the mill and the Sewell Valley Railroad (NF&G) to the C&O. The 1909 mill burned in 1924, and a 1925 triple-band mill had an annual capacity of 30 million board feet, employed 500 workers, and produced finished lumber, furniture, flooring, and shoe heels. Operations ended on 28 Dec. 1970. Built in 1914, the United Methodist Church was said to be the largest building in the world made entirely of chestnut. Because the Raine family wanted only one church in town, the denomination was determined by the majority of Meadow River Lumber Company workers. The church also served school, service, and civic groups as a meeting house and once housed the public library, and an educational wing with a wormy chestnut interior was added in 1930.