Mary Draper Ingles
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Mary Draper Ingles, also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia. In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among se
Statue of Mary Draper Ingles included in the Virginia Women's Monument.
Log cabin next to the New River, near present-day Radford, Virginia, where Mary Draper Ingles and her husband William lived out their lives. Photo c.1890
A captive runs the gauntlet between Shawnee warriors.
A postcard of Ingles Ferry, ca. 1908
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
Mary Draper Ingles
…pioneer and early settler of western Virginia. In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War. They were taken to Lower Shawneetown at the Ohio and Scioto rivers. Ingles escaped with another woman after two and…
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.