Melvin Mayfield

Historical marker location:

230 W Main St, Salem, West Virginia

( Memorial is on West Main Street, 0.1 miles east of West Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)

Congressional Medal of Honor.

The West Virginia University Mountaineers football team played the first ever college football night game in 1892. The game was played under electric lights at the Mountaineer Field in Morgantown.