Historical Marker
Waterpower System
Historical marker location:
39401 John Mosby Hwy, Aldie, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) just west of Tail Race Road (Virginia Route 612), on the left when traveling west.)
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.