Historical Marker
Virginia Creeper Railroad
Historical marker location:
Whitetop, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Whitetop Gap Road (County Route 726) and Old Park Road (County Route 755) on Whitetop Gap Road.)
Marker installed: 2002
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.