Fairfax Line

Historical marker location:

New Market, Virginia

( Marker is on North Valley Pike (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles south of Shady Lane, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2017

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.