Giles County / Bland County

Historical marker location:

Bland, Virginia

( Marker is on Walkers Creek Valley Road (Virginia Route 42) 1.6 miles west of Flat Hollow Road (Virginia Route 670), on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1946

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.