Stephens City

Historical marker location:

5071 Main Street, Stephens City, Virginia

( Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles south of Stephens Court or Valley Pike, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1988

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.