Mirador

Historical marker location:

Greenwood, Virginia

( Marker is on Rockfish Gap Turnpike (U.S. 250) east of Plank Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1995

Virginia is known as the "Mother of Presidents" because eight U.S. presidents were born there. Additionally, two more presidents, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, were born in what is now Virginia before it became a state.