Historical Marker
Detwiler House
Historical marker location:
12704 Chapel Road, Clifton, Virginia
( Marker is on Chapel Road east of Main Street, on the left when traveling east.)
Ca. 1900.
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.