Historical Marker
The Monticello Graveyard
Historical marker location:
931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy, Charlottesville, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Monticello Loop, 0.3 miles north of Thomas Jefferson Parkway (Virginia Route 53), on the left when traveling south.)
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.