Historical Marker
Irma Clifton
Historical marker location:
9601 Ox Road, Lorton, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Workhouse Way, 0.1 miles north of Ox Road (Virginia Route 123), on the right when traveling north.)
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.