Dunkard's Bottom, Virginia
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Dunkard's Bottom was a Schwarzenau Brethren religious community in the colony of Virginia in British America. It was established on the New River in the mid-1740s by brothers Samuel, Gabriel and Israe
Chimney from the home of William Christian, built in 1772. The stones were relocated when the dam inundated the site, and this monument was erected at Claytor Lake State Park by the New River Historical Society and the Virginia Division of State Parks.
Plaque at Claytor Lake State Park commemorating the Dunkard's Bottom community.
Traditional religious Love Feast among the Schwarzenau Brethren.
Draper's Meadow massacre
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The Draper's Meadow Massacre was an attack in July 1755, when the Draper's Meadow settlement in southwest Virginia, at the site of present-day Blacksburg, was raided by a group of Shawnee warriors, wh
Dunkard's Bottom, Virginia
…Ingles purchased 900 acres of land in the area and established a farm with his wife Mary Draper Ingles, after their home in the nearby community of Draper's Meadow was destroyed during an attack by Shawnee Indians. They assisted in the construction of a small fort there, probably no more than a blockhouse, which was later named…
Reconstructed 18th-century pioneer cabin on Smithfield Plantation, near the site of the Draper's Meadow Massacre in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Draper's Meadow Massacre memorial in Blacksburg, Virginia
Memorial plaque to Colonel James Patton and pioneers killed at Draper's Meadow Massacre.