Cherrydale Masonic Hall

Historical marker location:

3805 Lee Highway, Arlington, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Lee Highway (Route 29) and North Oakland Street, on the right when traveling west on Lee Highway.)

Marker installed: 2004

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.