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Meadow Bridge is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 379 at the 2010 census. The first settler of the area was John Gwin, closely followed by Dan Griffin.

The community took its name from a nearby bridge over Meadow Creek.

Meadow Bridge town overview:
Name:	Meadow Bridge town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	West Virginia
County:	Fayette County
Elevation:	2,431 ft (741 m)
Total Area:	0.41 sq mi (1.05 km²)
Land Area:	0.41 sq mi (1.05 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	379
Population Density:	852.22/sq mi (329.16/km²)
ZIP code:	25976
Area code:	304
FIPS code:	5452780
GNISfeature ID:	1543055

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History

Sometime in 1890, the first Meadow Bridge post office was established, and gave the area the name of Montrode. This was later changed to Clute, after the Virginia lumberman Theodore Clute, who came with the railroad to establish a sawmill in the area. With the help of the Meadow River Lumber company, and Theodore Clute, millions of feet of lumber were cut, and soon a town sprang up with shops and houses.

With industry in Meadow Bridge, on July 26, 1920, it was incorporated into an official town. Although industry came to the small town of Meadow Bridge, progress was slow and arduous. After several years of hard fighting, in 1924, they finally were able to bring a high school to the town, Meadow Bridge High School.

Part of their troubles was the fact that they were isolated from the rest of Fayette County. That changed in 1937, when a seven-mile stretch of road was hard-surfaced, linking Meadow Bridge and the nearby town of Danese. In 1938, a road linking the town of Hinton and Rainelle ran through Meadow Bridge, linking all the towns together and, by extension, to Route 41. This finally gave Meadow Bridge a path to the western part of Fayette County.