Wickliffe Church

Historical marker location:

3568 Wickliffe Rd, Wickliffe, Virginia

( Marker is on Wickliffe Road (County Route 608), on the right when traveling north.)

Clarke Episcopal Parish.

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.