Historical Marker
Botanical Garden
Historical marker location:
Mount Vernon, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (Virginia Route 235) and George Washington Memorial Highway, on the right when traveling east on Mount Vernon Memorial Highway.)
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.