Cedar Creek

Historical marker location:

Strasburg, Virginia

( Marker is on Valley Pike (U.S. 11) 0.4 miles north of Quarry Road, in the median.)

Strategic Crossing. 1864 Valley Campaign.

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.