Historical Marker
Charles Drew House
Historical marker location:
2505 1st Street South, Arlington, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of 1st Street South and South Cleveland Street, on the left when traveling east on 1st Street South.)
Marker installed: 2003
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.