Valuable Crossroads

Historical marker location:

10805 Orange Plank Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of Orange Plank Road (County Route 621) and Brock Road (County Route 613), on the right when traveling east.)

Battle of the Wilderness. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

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.