Building Fort Burnham

Historical marker location:

Henrico, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Battlefield Park Road, 0.2 miles south of Picnic Road.)

Marker installed: 2010

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.