Stroud Massacre

Historical marker location:

Camden-On-Gauley, West Virginia

( Marker is on County Road 11, 0.2 miles north of Smoot Lane, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2009

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.