Historical Marker
The Corner Store
Historical marker location:
9102 Courthouse Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
( Marker is on Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 208) just north of Brock Road (County Road 613), on the left when traveling north.)
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.