Prices Fork is a small traditionally agricultural

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP), in Montgomery County,

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, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 1,066. It is located about three miles west of Blacksburg and the campus of

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(Virginia Tech). The community is a part of the

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which encompasses all of Montgomery County and the cities of Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford for statistical purposes. Prices Fork was named in honor of the local Price, or Preisch, family. Prices Fork has one church (Prices Fork United Methodist Church), a Grange Hall and an elementary school (grades pre-K through 5th grade). Several structures in the community are designated as historical structures. The

Prices Fork Historic District Prices Fork Historic District is a national historic district located at Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings in the village of Prices Fork. It includes a variety of vernacular residentia ...

, Evans House No. 2,

Joseph McDonald Farm Joseph McDonald Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. The main house is a two-story, three-bay, modified hall and parlor plan, log dwelling. The original section dates to about 1800. ...

, and

Adam Wall House Adam Wall House is a historic home located near Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, five-bay, log dwelling with a modified hall and parlor plan. It is sheathed in weatherboard, and has a gabl ...

are listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

History

Prices 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 Prices 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. Prices Fork received its name from the Price (Preisch) family, early German settlers here, whose land bordered both sides of the road. Prices 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.http://www.markerhistory.com/prices-fork-marker-kg-25/

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