Wormley Creek Crossing

Historical marker location:

Yorktown, Virginia

( Marker is on Historical Tour Road, 0.7 miles south of Moore House Road (Virginia Route 238), on the right when traveling south.)

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.