Historical Marker
Richardsons Hill
Historical marker location:
Front Royal, Virginia
( Marker is on North Royal Avenue north of West 14th Street (U.S. 340), on the left when traveling north.)
Kenly Makes His Stand. Battle of Front Royal, May 23, 1862.
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.