Simon Kenton

Historical marker location:

4500-4554 Pennsylvania Avenue, Big Chimney, West Virginia

( Marker is on Pennsylvania Avenue (U.S. 119) ½ mile east of West Virginia Route 114, on the right when traveling north.)

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.