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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKO_robert-james-davidson_Blacksburg-VA.html
An American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, Robert James Davidson worked at VPI as a chemist for the experiment station as a chemistry professor before becoming the first dean of the Scientific Department and the Department of A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKM_solitude_Blacksburg-VA.html
The earliest portion of Solitude was constructed about 1801 on land owned by Philip Barger, who sold the property in 1803 to James Patton Preston, governor of Virginia (1816-1819). Governor John Floyd (1830-1834), Preston's brother-in-law, lived a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKF_mary-draper-ingels_Blacksburg-VA.html
On 30 July 1755, during the French and Indian War, Shawnee Indians attacked the Draper's Meadow settlement nearby. They killed Col. James Patton, Casper Berger, Mrs. George Draper, and a Draper child, wounded James Cull, and captured Mary Draper I…