Col. John Jameson

Historical marker location:

Culpeper, Virginia

( Marker is on Oaklawn Boulevard just west of South Blue Ridge Avenue, in the median.)

Marker installed: 2004

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.