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When he passed away in 1792, he split the land evenly between his two sons, John and William, each of them receiving 300 acres.
John’s land would evolve into Virginia Tech’s campus while William’s land would become the Town of Blacksburg, of which much of the original town exists today.[https://blacksburgmuseum.org/16-squares-of-blacksburg/]
You can go on a walking tour of the original 16 squares by clicking [http://tobweb.org/WalkingTour/ Here]
