 Picture courtesy of Garry Thompson
John Draper’s wife, Bettie Robertson Draper was captured byt the Shawnee at Draper’s Meadows (Blacksburg)in 1755. Mrs. Draper was carried into the Ohio Country along with her sister-in-law, Mary Draper Ingalls and five others. Six years later, John Draper found his wife living in the family of an Indian Chief. After paying for her return, went home to the New River Valley. About 1765 they moved into a log cabin in the area still know as Draper’s Valley, just south and west.
Department of Historic Resources 1997
U. S. Route 11, 2-miles south of Pulaski at the Draper Mountain Senic Overlook Pulaski County Virginia.
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