Green Springs

Historical marker location:

Louisa, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Spotswood Trail (U.S. 33) and Dunkum Store Road (County Route 636), on the right when traveling west on Spotswood Trail.)

Marker installed: 1928

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.