Historical Marker

Southwark Parish Churches

Historical marker location:
Surry, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Colonial Trail West (Virginia Route 10) and Hollybush Road (County Route 618), on the left when traveling north on Colonial Trail West.)
Marker installed: 2005

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.
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