Number of births to Montgomery County residents in 2004: 840

Number of Montgomery County residents who died in 2004: 516

Montgomery County traces its origin to 1776, when it was formed and named after Gen. Richard Montgomery, an American hero of the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.

The first settlement, Drapers Meadow, was established in present-day Blacksburg in the 1740s but was destroyed by Shawnee Indians in 1755 during the French and Indian War.

Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, a popular resort area of 19th-century America, was located just north of mile marker 128 on Interstate 81. During the Civil War, the resort was converted into a military hospital staffed by Catholic nuns. Several hundred victims of smallpox, including nurses and soldiers, are buried nearby. The Southern Historical Society was reorganized here in August 1873, when Jefferson Davis delivered the principal address.