Historical Marker
Daley's Grocery
Historical marker location:
Tangier, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Main Ridge Road and Chambers Road, on the left when traveling south on Main Ridge Road.)
The first slave ship to arrive in the American colonies landed in Virginia in 1619. Virginia became a center of the transatlantic slave trade, and by 1860, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved people in the United States.