DRAPERS MEADOW Series: Wilderness Road

Roanoke Times & World News | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

The Virginia Tech Duck Pond is a peaceful place, especially in spring, when students stroll across the bridges or sprawl on the grass to study in the sun. But a half-buried stone marker recalls a day when death issued from the woods:

"The Drapers Meadow Massacre," it reads. "July 8, 1755."

Two hundred fifty years ago, the frontier outpost known as Drapers Meadow ran with blood. As near as anyone can tell, the heart of the settlement was just about here, between the Virginia Tech Drillfield and the Grove, home of the college president. There was no duck pond then - it wasn't built until the ...

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