Historical Marker

Chief Cornstalk

Historical marker location:
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
( Marker is on Main Street, 0 miles west of 1st Street, on the right when traveling south.)

1727–1777.

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.
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