Trade Routes

Historical marker location:

1632 Belle Isle Road, Lancaster, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Belle Isle Road, ½ mile south of Creek Landing Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

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.