Battlefield Preservation

Historical marker location:

Stevensburg, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of York Road (Road 600) and Germanna Highway (State Highway 3), on the right when traveling east on York Road.)

Marker installed: 2020

Saving America's Historic Battlefields. Preserving Then and Now.

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.