Historical Marker
Molly Marine
Historical marker location:
18900 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Triangle, Virginia
( Memorial is on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) 0.1 miles south of Joplin Road (Virginia Route 619), 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.