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Default 04-16-2007, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Blacksburg's town limits were slightly northeast of an earlier frontier settlement dating from 1748 called Draper's Meadow, the site of the infamous "Draper's Meadow Massacre" of 1755. Smithfield Plantation, built in approximately 1772 [2] by Col. William B. Preston, sits on the original Draper's Meadow site, which is near the Duck Pond on the Virginia Tech campus.
[url:bb31e]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksburg,_Virginia[/url:bb31e]

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