Historical Marker
Jackson
Historical marker location:
9001 Plank Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
( Marker is on Plank Road / Germania Highway (State Highway 3), on the right when traveling west.)
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.