As late as the end of World War II, nine ferries on the Monongahela River connected Washington and Greene county points with Fayette County.
The communities were Fayette City, Coal Center / Newell, Fredericktown / East Fredericktown ( LaBelle ) , Millsboro / East Millsboro, Crucible / Arensburg, Adah, Nemacolin / Huron, Martin and Greensboro / New Geneva.

Since the early 1900's, as the railroad advanced up the river, many people used the ferry to cross to the to the Fayette county side to take the railroad to Brownsville or Morgantown. The Monongahela Railway obligingly built stations or shelters at each ferry landing. In 1950, railroad passenger service along that side of the river between Brownsville and Fairmont, W.Va., came to an end. The ferry at Fredericktown is the last on the river.

It does not seem to have much time left, (See The Last Ride due to the new bridge being built at Denbo. There's been a ferry at Fredericktown since 1790. That's a long time.