Historical Marker
Ruckers Chapel
Historical marker location:
2053 S Amherst Hwy, Amherst, Virginia
( Marker is on South Amherst Highway (U.S. 29) south of North Coolwell Road (County Route 663), on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2008
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.