The Town

Historical marker location:

12239 Bristow Rd, Brentsville, Virginia

( Marker is on Bristow Road (Virginia Route 619) just west of Barbee Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Brentsville.

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.