Historical Marker
Kitty Payne
Historical marker location:
250 Gay Street, Washington, Virginia
( Marker is on Gay Street, on the right when traveling north.)
Freedom Lost and Regained.
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.