Historical Marker
Third Timberville Community School
Historical marker location:
197 Church St, Timberville, Virginia
( Marker is on High Street (County Road T-1504) just north of Church Street (State Route 617), on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2014
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.