Slave Auction Block

Historical marker location:

Wheeling, West Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of 10thStreet (U.S. 40) and Market Street (West Virginia Route 2), on the left when traveling west on 10thStreet.)

"Sold down river".

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.