Three Northampton Landmarks

Historical marker location:

Birdsnest, Virginia

( Marker is on Charles M Lankford Jr. Memorial Highway (U.S. 13) near Traherneville Road (County Route 622), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1998

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.