Sully Plantation

Historical marker location:

3601 Sully Road, Chantilly, Virginia

( Marker is on Sully Road (Virginia Route 28) near Lee - Jackson Memorial Highway (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1988

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.