Historical Marker
Navy Hill
Historical marker location:
400 East Jackson Street, Richmond, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of East Jackson Street and North 4th Street, on the right when traveling west on East Jackson Street.)
Marker installed: 2010
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.