Historical Marker
Benvenue
Historical marker location:
6800 Churchill Road, McLean, Virginia
( Marker is on Churchill Road north of Dolley Madison Boulevard (Virginia Route 123).)
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.