Historical Marker

Fort Willard

Historical marker location:
6625 Fort Willard Circle, Alexandria, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Fort Willard Circle.)

Fort Willard Park.

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.
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