Freeman House

Historical marker location:

131 Church St NE, Vienna, Virginia

( Marker is on Washington and Old Dominion Trail just east of Church Street Northeast, on the left when traveling east. Reported unreadable.)

Marker installed: 2003

Home of Leon L. Freeman. First President & Fire Chief, Vienna Volunteer Fire Department.

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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.