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Blacksville is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 171 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. Blacksville was founded in 1829 by David Black, and named for him.
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census.amuel Black, whose family settled in Staunton, Virginia, bought 600 acres (2.4 km 2) of land in the Draperâs Meadow area for his sons John and William in 1772.