Historical Marker
Murphy House
Historical marker location:
Woodstock, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Dingledine Street and South Muhlenberg Street, on the right when traveling east on Dingledine Street.)
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.