John Rutherford's Farm

Historical marker location:

1876 Martinsburg Pike, Winchester, Virginia

( Marker is on Martinsburg Pike (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling south. Reported damaged.)

Interrupted by War.

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.