Stagecoach Stop

Historical marker location:

Coxs Mills, West Virginia

( Marker is on West Virginia Route 47 west of U.S. 33, on the right when traveling east.)

Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike.

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.