Mary Draper Ingles

Mary Draper Ingles is a Virginia historical marker in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, dedicated 1998.

Montgomery County · dedicated 1998 · West Campus Drive at Duck Pond Drive, VPI, Blacksburg

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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 Barger, Mrs. George Draper, and a Draper child, wounded James Cull, and captured Mary Draper Ingles, her two sons, Mrs. John Draper, and Henry Leonard. The Indians took their captives to Ohio. After several months, Ingles escaped and wandered some 800 miles to return home, a legendary feat. She and her husband, William, moved near Radford and operated a New River ferry. She died and was buried there in 1815, aged 83.

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