Historical Marker
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
Historical marker location:
101 N Main St, Woodstock, Virginia
( Memorial is at the intersection of North Main Street (U.S. 11) and East Court Street, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street.)
Marker installed: 1988
October 1, 1746 - October 1, 1807.
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.