Historical Marker
Modification, Decay & Preservation
Historical marker location:
8960 Courthouse Road, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
( Marker is on Courthouse Road (Route 208) just west of Judicial Center Lane (County Road 631), on the right when traveling west.)
Spotsylvania Court House National Historic District.
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.