Valley Pike

Historical marker location:

Fishers Hill, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Old Valley Pike (U.S. 11) and Battlefield Road (County Route 601), on the right when traveling south on Old Valley Pike.)

Tumbling Run Near Fisher's Hill.

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.