Historical Marker

Lee’s Rear Guard

Historical marker location:
Vera, Virginia
( Marker is on Howe Flood Highway (State Highway 24), on the left when traveling south.)

Final Blow. Lee’s Retreat.

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.
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