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About five miles southwest is Dunkard Bottom, where Dr. Thomas Walker found a settlement in 1750. The fort there was built about 1756 and was the first fort in Virginia west of New River. The first store and first mill were also there.
Conservation and Development Commission 1929
US 11, marker is in the median, south of Radford. Pulaski County Virginia.
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