Formerly Owned By Native Americans
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William Blake purchased 3,062.25 acres of land for $1258.00 in 1796. This land was part of the Henry Banks survey in Montgomery County, Virginia (at the waters of Loup Creek and the New River). He would move his family to an old Indian Fort in 1805 to what is now Mount Hope. He chose this region due to his faith in the fertility of the soil. Egypt was the name given to the valley.
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