Historical Marker
Confederate Memorial
Historical marker location:
74 Courthouse Square, Lovingston, Virginia
( Memorial is at the intersection of Court Street (Virginia Route 1001) and Main Street on Court Street.)
Marker installed: 1965
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.