Meadows of Dan, VA.:
Located In Patrick County, In the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Reprinted from The Blue Ridge Gazette, April, 2006 Meadows of Dan Gateway Sign, image by Leslie Shelor The small community of Meadows of Dan is located close to the edge of the Blue Ridge Plateau in Virginia, a wide, rugged elevation that extends westward toward Tennessee. This broad high mountainous area was settled in the early 1800s, mostly by German and Scotch-Irish settlers that traveled down from Pennsylvania. Fleeing turmoil, poverty and war in Europe, these hardy adventurers had little money to purchase land in the green hills of Pennsylvania. They trekked south in search of affordable land and spread through the Blue Ridge Mountains, serving as a buffer between the English Virginia settlers and the Native Americans. Read More HERE.
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