Historical Marker
Bath County Historical Society Building
Historical marker location:
99 Courthouse Hill Road, Warm Springs, Virginia
( Marker is on Courthouse Hill Road (Virginia Route 619) 0.1 miles east of Old Mill Road (Route 645), on the left when traveling east.)
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.