Barn

Historical marker location:

7137 Main St, Clifton, Virginia

( Marker is on Main Street (Virginia Route 645) just north of Ford Lane, on the right when traveling north.)

Clifton Betterment Assoc.

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.