Big Cedars Farm

10/12/2026

10/12/2026

Booking dates at Big Cedars Farm for office parties, club meetings, and fall celebrations! Experience the seasonal charm and make memories. Tag a friend who needs to see this space!

10/12/2026

Now Booking Fall Events 4 Kids of ALL ages!
Suitable for Groups of 2-75 ppl

We help plan the fun and set the stage with amazing Halloween/Fall vibes until November 2.

- 🎄🐐🫏🤫 coming in November stay tuned!!!

10/10/2026

Our area is rich with history. VisitVirginia Tech and spend time at Historic Smithfield to learn more.

October 9: The Attack That Happened Where Virginia Tech Stands Today

Thousands of people walk across the Virginia Tech campus every day without realizing that one of Southwest Virginia’s most violent frontier events happened in this area more than 270 years ago.

In 1755, this wasn’t Blacksburg. It was a small frontier settlement known as Draper’s Meadow.

That summer, during the French and Indian War, a group of Shawnee warriors attacked the settlement. Several settlers were killed, and five people were taken captive.

Among them was Mary Draper Ingles, along with her two young sons.

The captives were taken hundreds of miles away to Shawnee communities in the Ohio country. Mary was eventually separated from her children.

Months later, she escaped with another captive woman.

With winter approaching and few supplies, the two followed rivers eastward through hundreds of miles of wilderness. Mary eventually followed the New River through the mountains toward the place she had once called home.

After roughly 40 days, she made it back to the New River Valley.

Her story became one of the region’s best-known survival stories, but the place where it began is surprisingly easy to overlook.

The settlement of Draper’s Meadow stood in what is now Blacksburg, near the Virginia Tech campus. A memorial near the Duck Pond still marks the history of the attack.

Students walk past it. Cars drive nearby. Blacksburg has grown around it.

But in 1755, this was the edge of the Virginia frontier, and one summer attack changed the lives of everyone living there.

How many times have you passed this area without knowing what happened there?

History isn’t in the past. It’s all around us.

10/08/2026

10/08/2026

We love Gus!

10/06/2026

Setting the stage for a corporate Fall Festival-

We have dates available to host an intimate gathering or corporate fall event!

10/05/2026

We are super excited to be included in this month's Agritourism Issue. Page 16

Welcome to Issue 217 of Valley Business FRONT for October 2026.