Major Joseph E. Gillette

Historical marker location:

31023 Camp Pkwy, Courtland, Virginia

( Marker is on Camp Parkway (Virginia Route 58) 0.4 miles west of Delaware Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1981

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.