Mitchell-Weeks House

Historical marker location:

13661 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Chantilly, Virginia

( Marker is on Lee Jackson Memorial Highway (U.S. 50) east of Chantilly Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2003

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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.