Swann's Castle

Historical marker location:

Leesburg, Virginia

( Marker is on Southern Planter Lane, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2008

Morven Park in the Civil War.

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.