Loudoun County / Maryland

Historical marker location:

12449 James Monroe Hwy, Lovettsville, Virginia

( Marker is on James Monroe Highway (U.S. 15) 0.1 miles south of Lovettsville Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1986

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.