Breneman-Turner Mill

Historical marker location:

5036 Turners Mill Lane, Edom, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Turners Mill Lane and Breneman Church Road (Virginia Route 778), on the right on Turners Mill Lane.)

<i>Survivor of The Burning</i>. 1864 Valley Campaign.

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.