Colonial Post Office

Historical marker location:

10121 Tidewater Trail, Fredericksburg, Virginia

( Marker is on Tidewater Trail (Virginia Route 2) 0.6 miles east of Jim Morris Road (County Route 609), on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1928

The first African American governor in the United States, L. Douglas Wilder, was elected in Virginia in 1989.