Historical Marker
Mitchell's Ford
Historical marker location:
7610 Old Centreville Road, Manassas, Virginia
( Marker is on Old Centreville Road (Route 616), on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2010
Confederate Strongpoint.
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.