Madison Hall

Historical marker location:

8080 Main Street, Port Republic, Virginia

( Marker is on Main Street, 0.1 miles south of Leroy Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1999

Homesite scene of colonial settlement, Civil War clash.

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.