Historical Marker
Preserving History
Historical marker location:
2114 Rippon Boulevard, Woodbridge, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Forest Grove Drive and Rippon Boulevard (County Route 784), on the right when traveling north on Forest Grove Drive.)
Marker installed: 2007
The King's Highway.
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.