Historical Marker
Blackmores Fort
Historical marker location:
Gate City, Virginia
( Marker is on Kane Street (Business U.S. 421) east of Jones Street, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2003
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.