Cherry Grove Estate

Historical marker location:

5239 N. Lee Hwy, Fairfield, Virginia

( Marker is on North Lee Highway (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1928

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.