Historical Marker
Trevilians Schoolhouse
Historical marker location:
214 Fredericksburg Ave, Louisa, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Fredericksburg Avenue (Route 628) 0.1 miles east of School Street (County Road T-1014), on the right when traveling west.)
1880 to 1922.
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.