Historical Marker
William Addison Add Caldwell
Historical marker location:
Simmonville, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Cumberland Gap Road (Virginia Route 42) and Sugar Maple Road (County Route 625) on Cumberland Gap Road.)
Marker installed: 1997
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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.