Editing Gloucester County, Virginia (section)

==Notable people==
* [[John Buckner (burgess)|John Buckner]]: brought the colony its first [[printing press]] in 1680
* [[Félix Rigau Carrera]]- first Puerto Rican Marine pilot; became a businessman in Gloucester County in later life.
* [[John Clayton (botanist)|John Clayton]]: [[Botany|botanist]]
* [[Irene Morgan]], civil rights activist who in 1946 won a [[United States Supreme Court]] case ruling that segregation of interstate bus travel was unconstitutional, in ''[[Morgan v. Virginia]]'' (1946); she lived here in her later years
* [[Robert Russa Moton]], educator and author
* [[Walter Reed]], doctor who discovered cause and cure for [[yellow fever]] during the building of the [[Panama Canal]] and namesake of several medical facilities, including the [[Walter Reed National Military Medical Center]], in metro Washington, D.C.
* Thomas Calhoun Walker: attorney and civil-rights activist.<ref>[https://www.dailypress.com/2013/02/09/black-history-in-gloucester-from-slave-child-to-folk-hero/ Black history in Gloucester: From slave child to folk hero]  – ''The Daily Press'' February 9, 2013</ref> The [[T.C. Walker House]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2009.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>