Historical Marker

Beaver Dam Creek

Historical marker location:
Mechanicsville, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Cold Harbor Road (Virginia Route 156), on the right when traveling east.)

Richmond Battlefield. Richmond Nat’l Battlefield Pk – 1862/64.

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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