Middlesex County Confederate Monument

Historical marker location:

Saluda, Virginia

( Marker is on General Puller Highway (Virginia Route 17) near Gloucester Road (Virginia Route 33).)

Marker installed: 1910

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.