Historical Marker
Federal Winter Quarter
Historical marker location:
10549 Bristow Station Dr, Bristow, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from 10th Alabama Way, 0.1 miles Iron Brigade Unit Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)
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.