Historical Marker
King's Mountain Men
Historical marker location:
914 West Main Street, Abingdon, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (U.S. 11) and Colonial Road SW, on the right when traveling north on West Main Street.)
Marker installed: 1935
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.