Union Reserves

Historical marker location:

9051 Malvern Hill Battlefield Terrain, Henrico, Virginia

( Marker is on Willis Church Road (Virginia Route 156), on the left when traveling south.)

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.