Massacre in Lee Co., VA

[Darla Jackson]

Hello, I feel this is the best place to post this question, since I don't have any proof that this really occurred:

I live on the Harlan Co., KY/ Lee Co., VA border. There is a story I have heard for years that there was a group of Native Americans called Blackfoot Indians living in what is now Dot, VA in Lee County. Dot, VA is a tiny community right by Blackwater, VA and near Hancock Co., TN. According to the story, these people were attacked and killed and their village wiped out. I do not know when this was supposed to have happened or who killed these people.

Has anyone ever heard this story? I would love to know if it really happened.
Thanks, Darla Jackson

[Linda]

I've never heard a story about a massacre like that before, but I have heard from more than a few people from that area with a oral tradition in their families that they were Blackfoot. All I can say is, don't assume these people were living in huts, dressed like "Indians." They might have been living like settlers, dressed like them, in cabins, even enumerated with English surnames. These people were Anglicized very early on.

[Tom]

Hello , this is very interesting too bad we don't have more info on it.
I have heard of many stories simular to this, I'd say check into it, ask the old timers and talk to historians etc. Last look at some old census records to fit the time frame if you see a mass exodus etc perhaps it has a base.
In our own family we have found where families were doing great on a census and the next only the mother and infant children were still alive.
A really shocking find! All the best Tom.