A Noted Preacher

Historical marker location:

Rocky Gap, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of North Scenic Highway (U.S. 52) and Interstate 77, on the right when traveling south on North Scenic Highway.)

Marker installed: 1999

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.