Bel Air

Historical marker location:

Front Royal, Virginia

( Marker is on Water Street, on the right.)

Home of Lucy Buck, Diarist. Battle of Front Royal - May 23, 1862.

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.