Historical Marker
Heartpine Cafe
Historical marker location:
102 Cave Hill Rd, Luray, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Cave Hill Road, 0.2 miles west of Lee Highway (U.S. 211/340), on the right 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.