Engle Homestead

Historical marker location:

Glenville, West Virginia

( Marker is on Little Kanawha Parkway (West Virginia Route 5) just east of 3rd Run Road (County Route 20), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1981

The first African American to serve as a member of the United States Senate was Hiram Rhodes Revels, who was born in Fayetteville, West Virginia, in 1827.