- 1671
- Batts and Fallam Expedition in Southwestern Virginia.
- 1734
- Orange County formed.
- 1738
- Augusta County formed.
- 1748
- Dr. Thomas Walker, John Buchanan and James Patton crossed New River, on surveying expedition
to Kentucky.
- 1749
- Loyal Land Company organized by Dr. Thomas Walker, James Patton, and others, based on a grant
of 800,000 acres of land, lying north of the North Carolina line and west of the
mountains.
First Indian depredation west of the Alleghanies upon Adam Harmon, one of the Drapers'
Meadows settlers.
- 1749-1774
- Draper's Meadow Settlement. Hale, J.P. Trans-Allegheny pioneers, 2d. edition, 1931, pages
19-93.
- 1750
- Dr. Thomas Walker made his second surveying journey to Cumberland Gap and Kentucky.
William Ingles and Mary Draper married at Draper's Meadows, the first white wedding west of
the Alleghenies.
- 1751
- Thomas Ingles born at Draper's Meadows, the first white child born west of the
Alleghenies.
- 1754
- Ingles' Ferry (New River), Virginia. Located by William Ingles.
- 1762
- Ingles' Ferry established by law.
- 1755
- July 30th. Drapers Meadows Massacre.
- 1756
- Vass (Vauss) Fort built under direction of Colonel Hogg. The fort was captured, by a party of
French and Shawnee Indians, the same year and all of its inmates killed or taken
prisoner.
- 1757
- The New River Lead Mines discovered by Colonel Chiswell, and operations begun.
- 1759
- Fort Chiswell (Wythe County) Virginia, built under direction of Colonel William Byrd.
- 1760
- An Indian raiding party surprised by William Ingles and others, near Ingle's Ferry, six or
seven Indians killed, and a few escaped. One white man killed. This was the last Indian raid
or trouble that occurred in that region.
- 1756
- "Dinwiddie, Governor, wrote to Colonel Clement Read, on September 8, 1756; 'Give Stallicker
(Stalnacker) 100 to qualify him to take his Company and build a little Stockade Fort at
Draper's Meadows, and take his receipt for it.'" Koontz, Louis K. The Virginia Frontier,
1754-1763, 1925, pages 118-119, and Brock, R.A., The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie,
vol. 2, 1884, page 503.
- 1769-1773
- Long Hunters' expeditions into Kentucky.
- 1774
- Dunmores War and battle of Point Pleasant, at mouth of Great Kanawha River, a tributary of the
Ohio River.
- 1775
- Daniel Boone and his party cut the Boone Trace, a section of the Wilderness Road, from Long
Island, on the Holston River, Tennessee, to Boonesborough, Kentucky.
- 1778
- "Governor Henry to Col. Wm. Preston, May 12, 1778. Sir your situation being an exposed one I
desire you will please keep a Sergeant and twelve men stationed at your House at Draper's
Meadow, in case you judge it expedient. This step is taken to induce you to remain at your
Habitation and to encourage other to do so. Wishing you safety I am, Sir, yr. mo. hble
servt., P. Henry. Colonel William Preston, Montgomery (County)." (In Official Letters of The
Governor of Virginia, vol. 1, The Letters of Patrick Henry, page 270.)
"Tuesday, May 12, 1778. The Board (Council) being informed of Colonel William Preston's
exposed situation on the frontiers (at Smithfield) and that it was apprehended (should he be
obliged to remove) most of the back Inhabitants would quit their settlements. They do advise
the Governor to empower Colonel Preston to keep a Sergeant and twelve men stationed at his
House at Draper's Meadows, to enable him to continue at his Habitation and encourage others do
so," (In Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia, vol. II, page 131, 1932.)
- 1792
- Christiansburg, Virginia, established.
- 1794
- Indians defeated, by General "Mad Anthony" Wayne in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which defeat
gave peace and security, for the Indians, to the Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania
frontiers.
- 1798
- Blacksburg established.
- 1838
- Ingles' Ferry bridge built; the first bridge across the New River.
- 1858
- The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, now the Norfolk and Western Railroad, opened the first
railroad to cross the New River.
- 1864
- May 9. Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, Pulaski County.
- 1871
- Blacksburg incorporated.