Price's Fork

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Price's Fork is within the area often referred to as the German New River Settlement. Before 1745, German immigrants moved from Pennsylvania and began settling in this region within the Price's Fork-Tom's Creek area near and along the horseshoe bottoms of the New River. They were among the earliest settlers of European descent in the western section of present-day Virginia. Price's Fork received its name from the Price (Preisch) family, early German settlers here, whose land bordered both sides of the road. Price's Fork evolved into a village during the mid-19th century. Portions of the community's buildings are within the Prices Fork Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

Department of Historic Resources, 2004

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Clara Cox, A Special Place for 200 Years: A History of Blacksburg, Virginia (Blacksburg, Va.: Town of Blacksburg, Virginia, 1998), 7-11; Leslie A. Giles, “A Preliminary Reconnaissance Survey of Historic Architecture in the City of Radford,” Virginia Department of Historic Resources, 1994, 6-7; U.S.A. Heavener, German New River Settlement—Virginia (First Printing 1928, Second Printing 1961); Patricia Givens Johnson, James Patton and the Appalachian Colonists (Pulaski, Va.: Edmonds Printing, Inc., 1983), 31, 84-85, 94-95; Patricia Givens Johnson, The New River Early Settlement (S.l: P.G. Johnson, 1983), 68-84; Robert L. Jolley, “Phase II Investigations at the Simeon Price Store Site (44MY423) Montgomery County, Virginia (VDOT Project No: 0685-060-190, M501, Virginia Department of Transportation, 1989), 4-7; F.B. Kegley, Kegley’s Virginia Frontier (Roanoke, Va.: Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938), 117-129; Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley, Early Adventurers on the Western Waters (Orange, Va.: Green Publishers, 1980- ), 1:174-177, 217-227, 265-269, 285-289; Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 326; Ann Miller, Orange County Road Orders, 134-1749 (Charlottesville, Va.: VDOT, 1984), 109-110; Price’s Fork Historic District, National Register Of Historic Resources Archives File (60-224), Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Virginia; Gibson Worsham, “Montgomery County: Historic Sites Survey, Volume 1,” July 1986; Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 (3 Vols.) (Camden, Mo.: Picton Press, 1992); Klaus Wust, compiler, Virginia German Bibliography (Edinbrug, Va.: Shenandoah History, 1970); Klaus Wust, The Virginia Germans (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1989), 39-42, 100; Anne Hayden Price Yates, Increase in Prices: Some Descendants of David and Agnes (Hoffman) Price of 17th Century Germany (Ridgecrest, Calif.: A.H. Yates, 1985), X-XI, VI, 128-129.