Historical Marker
Original Mount Vernon High School
Historical marker location:
8333 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) and Gregory Drive, on the right when traveling north on Richmond Highway.)
Marker installed: 2016
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.