Winifrede is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

Winifrede is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Chesapeake.

[2] It is home of the Big Eagle Railroad (formerly known as Winifrede Mining and Manufacturing Company, Winifrede Collieries, and Winifrede Railroad), one of the oldest short-line railroad operations in the United States, having been in existence since 1850.

According to tradition, the community was named after a woman in Philadelphia.

This article about a location in Kanawha County, West Virginia is a stub.