This corner portion of the brick foundation

Historical marker location:

18510 Cassatt Ave, Parksley, Virginia

( Marker is on Cassatt Avenue (Virginia Route 316) just north of Catherine Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Eastern Shore Railway Museum.

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.