Historical Marker
A Strategic Delay
Historical marker location:
Appomattox, Virginia
( Marker is on Old Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 24), on the right when traveling west.)
Appomattox Court House NatÂ’l Hist Park.
The first successful English attempt to establish a colony in North America was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 on Roanoke Island, off the coast of Virginia.