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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...
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    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...
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  • James Alexander Thom that told the story of the aftermath of the Draper's Meadow Massacre of 1755. Sheryl Lee as Mary Ingles Ellen Burstyn as Gretel Tim...
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  • Site in Pulaski County, Virginia. Ingles Ferry Mary Draper Ingles Thomas Ingles Draper's Meadow massacre Battle of Point Pleasant Sandy Creek Expedition William...
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  • memorial plaque at Smithfield Plantation, near the site of the Draper's Meadow Massacre in Blacksburg, on the Virginia Tech campus, on which is written:...
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    Kentucky by the Shawnee, among them Mary Draper Ingles, who later escaped. The memorial to Draper's Meadow massacre was dedicated on a bridge located near...
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  • on approximately 2,600 acres (11 km2). It was the site of the Draper's Meadow massacre in 1755 during the French and Indian War. Virginia Tech's presence...
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    In the history of the European colonization of the Americas, an Indian massacre is any incident between European settlers and indigenous peoples wherein...
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    an Irish sea captain turned land speculator who had died in the Draper's Meadow Massacre. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he served for four...
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    of settlers at Draper's Meadow, now Blacksburg, killing five and abducting five. The colonists called it the Draper's Meadow Massacre. The Shawnee captured...
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