Camp John J. Pershing

Historical marker location:

Pembroke, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Virginia Avenue (U.S. 460) and Snidow Street, on the right when traveling east on Virginia Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1987

Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1370-2386.

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.