The Mingo

Historical marker location:

Wheeling, West Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of National Road (U.S. 40) and Stone Boulevard and Mt. Wood Road and Pike Street, on the left when traveling west on National Road.)

Marker installed: 1928

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.