New Castle

Historical marker location:

New Castle, Virginia

( Marker is on Salem Avenue (Virginia Route 311) near Albert Street (County Route 634), on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1941

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.