Historical Marker
Curvy Course
Historical marker location:
9530 Osborne Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Osborne Turnpike north of Kingsland Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
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.