Historical Marker
Three Courthouse Essentials
Historical marker location:
Charles City, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 155) and Watermelon Fields Road on Courthouse Road.)
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.