Nelson Memorial Library

Historical marker location:

8521 Thomas Nelson Hwy, Lovingston, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Thomas Nelson Highway (Route 29) 0.3 miles south of Callohill Drive, on the left when traveling north.)

[Flood of 1969 Memorial].

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.