Historical Marker
Fry's / Barnett's Ford Road
Historical marker location:
Woodberry Forest, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from the intersection of James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) and Woodberry Forest Road (State Road 622), on the right when traveling north.)
Woodberry Perimeter Trail.
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.