Historical Marker
Cypress Church
Historical marker location:
Elberon, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Rolfe Highway (Virginia Route 31) and Sexton Road (Virginia Route 618), on the right when traveling north on Rolfe Highway.)
Marker installed: 2010
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.