Historical Marker

North River Bridge

Historical marker location:
Port Republic, Virginia
( Marker is on Route 1602, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1999

Covered bridge instrumental in Valley Campaign.

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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.
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