Historical Marker
Central High School
Historical marker location:
395 Thomas Jefferson Hwy, Charlotte Court House, Virginia
( Marker is on Thomas Jefferson Highway (Route 47) north of Union Cemetery Road (Virginia Route 709), on the left when traveling north.)
Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Charlotte County.
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.