Blacksburg Wedding

Blacksburg is located in Montgomery County, Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 39,573. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford are the three principal cities of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses thoses cities and all of Montgomery County for statistical purposes.

Blacksburg is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (better known as Virginia Tech), Virginia's land-grant university, and the state's largest university[1].

Blacksburg, Virginia, was founded in 1798 on a thirty-eight acre tract laid out and deeded by William Black, for whom the town was named. The original town was limited to a sixteen-block area bounded by present-day Draper Road, Jackson Street, Wharton Street, and Clay Street.

Blacksburg's town limits were slightly northeast of an earlier frontier settlement dating from 1748 called Draper's Meadow, the site of the infamous "Draper's Meadow Massacre" of 1755. Smithfield Plantation, built in approximately 1772 [2] by Col. William B. Preston, sits on the original Draper's Meadow site, which is near the Duck Pond on the Virginia Tech campus.