Historical Marker
21 Main Street
Historical marker location:
21 Main St, Sperryville, Virginia
( Marker is on Main Street (County Road 1001) just west of County Road 600, on the right when traveling west.)
Sperryville Historic District.
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.