Historical Marker
Hurricane Camille
Historical marker location:
3124 Patrick Henry Hwy, Piney River, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Patrick Henry Highway (Virginia Route 151) 0.4 miles south of Firehouse Road (Virginia Route 675), on the left when traveling south.)
The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway 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.