Gettysburg Campaign

Historical marker location:

Chester Gap, Virginia

( Marker is on Remount Road (U.S. 522), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1934

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.