Tucker County Courthouse

Historical marker location:

Parsons, West Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of 1st Street (U.S. 219) and Walnut Street, on the right when traveling east on 1st Street.)

Architect - Frank Pierce Milburn. Built 1898 - c. 1900.

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.