Historical Marker
Advance Mills
Historical marker location:
Charlottesville, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Advance Mills Road (County Route 743) and Frays Mill Road (County Route 641), on the left when traveling west on Advance Mills Road.)
Marker installed: 2011
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.