Edith Bolling Wilson

Historical marker location:

145 E Main St, Wytheville, Virginia

( Marker is on East Main Street (U.S. 11) near 1st Street, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2006

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.