Historical Marker
Blanks Crossroads
Historical marker location:
Charles City, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Sturgeon Point Road and The Glebe Lane, on the right when traveling south on Sturgeon Point Road.)
Charles City County, Virginia.
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.