Historical Marker
Martins Station
Historical marker location:
Rose Hill, Virginia
( Marker is on Daniel Boone Trail (Business U.S. 58) just west of Bypass U.S. 58, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2003
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.