When Miss Massie Garst died in 1960, she bequeathed Hanging Rock and Buzzard’s Roost to the Virginia Division United Daughters of the Confederacy and directed that the site be preserved as a memorial to the soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Hanging Rock on June 21, 1864. Her home stood near the gap where Confederate Brig. Gen. John McCausland fired on the artillery and supply wagons of Major General David Hunter’s U.S. Army. On June 3, 1932, the Southern Cross Chapter No. 746 U.D.C. erected a monument on Route 311 honoring the battle and the Confederate soldiers who died there. On June 21, 1964, the William Watts Chapter No. 809 dedicated a monument at the intersection of I-81 and Route 419 for the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Hanging Rock.