The Mary Ingles Trail Associates (MITA) will present the 2019 Legacy of Mary Ingles encampment and living history event at Beech Fork State Park, September 13-15, 2019.  Each September since 1989, the Mary Ingles Trail Associates have presented a historical encampment based on research of the life of Mary Draper Ingles.

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This year marks the 264th anniversary of Mary Ingles' odyssey.  In 1755, the Virginia frontier was embroiled in the turmoil of the French and Indian War, and it was also in 1755 that Mary was captured by, and escaped from, Shawnee Indians.  Accompanied by a German woman captive taken only a few weeks earlier than Mary, the two women followed the rivers and traveled nearly 500 miles on foot through the wilderness to reach home. That journey took her through western Virginia.