About Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg is a town of 44,826 people in Montgomery County, and it is home to Virginia Tech. In 1772 Samuel Black, whose family had settled in Staunton, bought 600 acres around Draper's Meadow for his sons, John and William. After Samuel died in 1792, the brothers split the land into two halves along the line of today's Draper Road.

In 1797 William Black drew up 16 square blocks of streets and lots on his half, between what are now Clay, Wharton and Jackson streets and Draper Road. He asked the state legislature to make it a town, and Blacksburg was founded on January 13, 1798, on a tract of 38.75 acres. That August 4 he handed the deed to the town trustees, and the town took his name. Blacksburg was incorporated in 1871, with Thomas W. Jones as its first mayor.

  • Draper's Meadow, 1755By 1748 the Draper and Ingles families had homes at Draper's Meadow, between today's campus and Hethwood. The French and Indian War reached the outpost in July 1755, when Shawnee warriors armed by France attacked its twenty or so settlers. About four died, and five were taken to Kentucky, Mary Draper Ingles among them; she later escaped. By the war's end nobody lived there. A memorial to the attack stands on a bridge near the Duck Pond.
  • Smithfield, about 1774Colonel William Preston built Smithfield Plantation around 1774 on the original Draper's Meadow site, close to where the Duck Pond is now. After a renovation, the house reopened in 1964.
  • A college on Solitude farmOn October 2, 1872, Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College opened its doors with three teachers on the 250 acre Solitude farm. The farmhouse, Solitude, grew into a Greek Revival house. It served the college as an infirmary from 1882 to 1886 and is the oldest building on campus. The college later became Virginia Polytechnic Institute and is now Virginia Tech, the state's land-grant university.
  • The HuckleberryThe first automobile passed through town in 1901. Three years later, trains began arriving from Christiansburg on the Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, which people came to call the Huckleberry. The last freight train reached the Blacksburg depot on June 30, 1966, and within 24 hours the depot had closed and the tracks were pulled up. Residents spent years pushing for a trail on the old right-of-way, and the Huckleberry Trail opened on December 1, 1998.
  • The county's first bankBlacksburg Savings Institution, founded in 1849, was the first bank in Montgomery County, and the town's first newspaper, the Montgomery Messenger, printed its first issue in 1869. As traffic grew, the town voted in January 1913 to stop letting cows roam its streets. In 1919 its first filling station opened, the only one between Roanoke and Bluefield, West Virginia.

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Names on the Blacksburg map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks59

  • Old Blacksburg Town Hall
  • Mount Tabor
  • Meadow Run
  • Myers Acres
  • Ramble Ridge
  • Center Woods
  • Airport Acres
  • Alleghany Heights
  • Apperson Park
  • Berryfield
  • Blackwood
  • Brightwood Manor
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  • Carriage Hill
  • Cedar Orchard
  • Chowning Place
  • Clover Valley
  • Country Club Park
  • Crestwood Gardens
  • Dickerson
  • Dundas Heights
  • Dunton Addition
  • Evergreen
  • Farmview
  • Glade Road Heights
  • Gladewood
  • Hethwood
  • Highland Park
  • Hilltop Plaza
  • Hubbard Haven
  • Hunters Ridge
  • Kanodes Mill
  • Keister Addition
  • Kessler Park
  • Knob Hill
  • Linkous
  • Longview Estates
  • McBryde Village
  • Meadow Brook
  • Miller Addition
  • Mission Hills
  • Mount Tabor Village
  • Mountain View Estates
  • Murphy
  • Nicholas Manor
  • Northside Park
  • Orchard View
  • Patrick Henry Place
  • Pheasant Run
  • Piedmont
  • Pilgrims Pointe
  • Rainbow Ridge
  • Silver Leaf
  • Snidow Heights
  • Southgate
  • Stroubles Mill
  • Sundance Ridge
  • University Place
  • Westover Hills
  • Woodbine

Streets and roads162

  • South Main Street
  • North Main Street
  • Research Center Drive
  • Hightop Road
  • Ellett Road
  • Plantation Road
  • Cedar Run Road
  • Harding Road
  • Yellow Sulphur Road
  • Hubbard Street
  • Shadow Lake Road
  • Draper Road Southwest
  • Duckpond Road
  • Prices Fork Road
  • Meadowbrook Drive
  • Glade Road
  • Toms Creek Road
  • Patrick Henry Drive
  • Tall Oaks Drive
  • Bishop Road
  • Giles Road
  • Dairy Road
  • Givens Lane
  • Old Mill Road
  • Broce Drive
  • Clay Street
  • Airport Road
  • Lee Street
  • Redbud Road
  • Drillfield Drive
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  • West Campus Drive
  • Grissom Lane
  • Transportation Research Drive
  • Graves Avenue
  • Lucas Drive
  • Woodbine Drive
  • Hidden Valley Road
  • Farmview Drive
  • Oak Lane
  • Commerce Street
  • Kraft Drive
  • Alumni Mall
  • Owens Street
  • Jennelle Road
  • Heartwood Crossing
  • Boxwood Drive
  • Primrose Drive
  • Merrimac Road
  • Stadium Road
  • Vinyard Avenue
  • Deerfield Drive
  • Mateer Circle
  • Village Way North
  • Pratt Drive
  • Country Club Drive
  • Stanger Street
  • Shelor Lane
  • Perry Street
  • Red Maple Drive
  • Northside Drive
  • Whipple Drive
  • Oriole Drive
  • Draper Road
  • Kabrich Street
  • Kent Street
  • Davis Street
  • Ardmore Street
  • Smoot Drive
  • College Avenue
  • Wilson Avenue
  • Sage Lane
  • Mabry Lane
  • Karr Lane
  • North Drive
  • Burruss Drive
  • Alice Drive
  • State Street
  • Highland Circle
  • Mount Tabor Road
  • Harding Avenue
  • Industrial Park Road
  • Village Way South
  • Turner Street Northeast
  • Cedar Hill Drive
  • Heather Drive
  • Seminole Drive
  • Southgate Drive
  • Old Farm Road
  • Park Drive
  • Penn Street
  • Huckleberry Lane
  • Brook Circle
  • Macarthur Street
  • Ascot Lane
  • Upland Road
  • Barger Street
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Harrell Street
  • Cohee Road
  • Lora Lane
  • Fairfax Road
  • Treetop Ridge Road
  • Webb Street
  • Tech Center Drive
  • Gracelyn Court
  • Sheliah Court
  • Rucker Road
  • Innovation Drive
  • Old Glade Road
  • Otey Street
  • Lakewood Drive
  • Elizabeth Drive
  • Hunters Mill Road
  • Mount Vernon Lane
  • Dunton Drive
  • Seneca Drive
  • Georgia Street
  • Tee Street
  • Derbe Lane
  • Lynn Drive
  • Neil Street
  • The Link
  • Farmingdale Lane
  • Scenic Ridge Circle
  • Spring Street
  • Sunrise Drive
  • Nellies Cave Road
  • Cork Drive
  • Hardwick Street
  • Lark Lane
  • Stroubles Creek Road
  • Winston Street
  • Henry Lane
  • Greenwood Drive
  • Turning Leaf Lane
  • Puller Lane
  • Edison Lane
  • Hidden Nest Drive
  • McEver Road
  • South Hill Street
  • University City Boulevard
  • Craig Drive
  • Preston Avenue
  • Landsdowne Street
  • Cherokee Drive
  • Jim Meadows Drive
  • Northview Drive
  • Partridge Drive Southeast
  • Maywood Street
  • Glen Cove Lane
  • Gustafson Avenue
  • Brighton Court
  • Warren Street
  • Robin Road
  • Grove Avenue
  • Minor Circle
  • McDonald Street
  • Holiday Lane
  • Forecast Drive
  • King Street
  • Claytor Square
  • Doe Run

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