Historical Marker
Echo Lake
Historical marker location:
Glen Allen, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Springfield Road, 0.2 miles east of Echo Lake Drive.)
A Place to Meet, A Sense of Community.
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.