Patowmack Canal

Historical marker location:

9200 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Old Carriage Road east of Old Dominion Drive (County Route 738).)

Great Falls Park. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

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.