Historical Marker
Miller School
Historical marker location:
1000 Samuel Miller Loop, Midway, Virginia
( Marker is on Miller School Road (County Route 635) close to Dick Woods Road (County Route 637), on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2001
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.