Rocky Mount

Historical marker location:

Rocky Mount, Virginia

( Marker is on South Main Street (Business U.S. 220) close to West and East Court Streets, on the left.)

Marker installed: 1941

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.