Germanna Ford

Historical marker location:

2095 Germanna Hwy, Locust Grove, Virginia

( Marker is on Germanna Highway, 0.1 miles west of College Drive (Virginia Route 375), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2016

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.