Historical Marker
Piney River Cabin ca. 1790
Historical marker location:
683 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy, Charlottesville, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Thomas Jefferson Parkway (Virginia Route 53) 0.1 miles east of Michie Tavern Lane (Virginia Route 1102), on the right when traveling east.)
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.