Historical Marker
Wowinchapuncke
Historical marker location:
1350 John Tyler Highway, Williamsburg, Virginia
( Marker is on John Tyler Highway (Virginia Route 5) ½ mile west of Barretts Ferry Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2008
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.