Sugar Maple

Historical marker location:

Morgantown, West Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Monongahela Boulevard (U.S. 19) 0.2 miles south of Evansdale Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1994

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.