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HokieBird. Website. www.vt.edu. Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), [9] is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. It was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872.
125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech. Historical Virginia Tech. Timeline of the History of Virginia Tech; A Short History of Virginia Tech, 1850-1974. Pre-Founding: 1850-1872; Founding of the College: 1872; The Early Years: The Minor Administration: 1872-1879; Minor, Buchanan, Conrad, and Political Interference; The Lomax Administration: 1886-1891
www.washingtoncountyky.com. Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,027. [1] Its county seat is Springfield. [2] The county is named for George Washington. [3] Washington County was the first county formed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky when it reached statehood, and the ...
125th Anniversary of Virginia Tech. Historical Virginia Tech. Timeline of the History of Virginia Tech; A Short History of Virginia Tech, 1850-1974. Pre-Founding: 1850-1872; Founding of the College: 1872; The Early Years: The Minor Administration: 1872-1879; Minor, Buchanan, Conrad, and Political Interference; The Lomax Administration: 1886-1891
A small Methodist school founded in the 1850s, the Institute was struggling when its trustees proposed to offer it to the state to become a land-grant college. The land offered to the state has a rich and complex history. The Tutelo and Monacan peoples were the traditional custodians of the area that today makes up much of Virginia and West ...
Charles Landon Carter Minor —First president, 1872-79. He was born on Dec. 3, 1835, at Edgewood in Hanover County, Va. He received an M.A. degree from the University of Virginia (UVa) in 1858. He taught at Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Va., and in LeRoy Broun’s School in Albemarle County, Va. He married Fanny Ansley (or Annsley ...
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Following a reorganization of the college in the 1890s, the state legislature changed the name to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, effective March 5, 1896. Faced with such an unwieldy name, people began calling it Virginia Polytechnic Institute, or simply VPI. On June 23, 1944, the legislature followed ...
