Historical Marker
Lest We Forget
Historical marker location:
835 Longstreet Rd, Farmville, Virginia
( Memorial is on Jackson Avenue, 0.1 miles west of Longstreet Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2013
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.