Historical Marker

Great Falls Tavern

Historical marker location:
11710 Macarthur Blvd, Potomac, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Macarthur Boulevard, 1.3 miles west of Falls Road, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1950

Maryland was once a center of the slave trade: Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that allowed slavery, and by the mid-18th century, it had become a major center of the domestic slave trade. Maryland slave traders sold enslaved people to plantation owners in other southern colonies and to the Caribbean.