Historical Marker
Tobacco Road
Historical marker location:
130 Virginia St, Urbanna, Virginia
( Marker is on Virginia Street (Virginia Route 602) 0.1 miles east of Cross Street (Route 227), on the right when traveling east.)
Urbanna, Virginia. The Museum in the Streets®.
In 1619, the Virginia House of Burgesses became the first representative assembly in the Americas. It was the beginning of a tradition of representative government that would later influence the creation of the United States government.