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  1. history.unirel.vt.edu › students_alumni › firstFirst Student - Virginia Tech History

    William Addison Caldwell: First Student to Register. Sixteen-year-old William Addison “Add” Caldwell and his older brother, Milton M. “Mic” Caldwell, walked as much as 28 miles across two mountains from their home in Sinking Creek in Craig County, Va., to Blacksburg, and Add became the first student to enroll in Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) when the ...

  2. www.vt.edu › about › traditionsHistory and Traditions - Virginia Tech

    History and Traditions. On October 1, 1872, Addison “Add” Caldwell walked 26 miles from Craig County to enroll as the first student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Ever since then, Virginia Tech has been fulfilling its role as a leading land-grant university. The tiny college, originally housed in the old Olin and Preston ...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Virginia_TechVirginia Tech - Wikipedia

    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.

  5. scholar.lib.vt.edu › ejournals › smithfieldreviewThe Life and Times of William Addison Caldwell: Virginia Tech ...

    Virginia Tech’s First Student Clara B. Cox Introduction The life of William Addison Caldwell, a native of Craig County, Virginia, and an alumnus of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC, today’s Virginia Tech), did not differ much from the lives of hundreds of other students who attended the small college in Blacksburg—

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Addison_CaldwellAddison Caldwell - Wikipedia

    William Addison Caldwell (1856-1910) became the first student to enroll in the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (V.A.M.C.) in the school's inaugural year in 1872. [1] V.A.M.C. was later named Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University (Virginia Tech). Caldwell hiked as much as 28 miles [2] through today's Jefferson National ...

  7. archive.vtmag.vt.edu › sum14 › firsts-in-virginiaFirsts in Virginia Tech History | Virginia Tech Magazine ...

    The first international student at Virginia Tech—James Dunsmuir, of British Columbia, Canada—arrived early in the school's existence. He went on to serve in the British Columbia legislative assembly and as a director of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Alumni Association (1875)

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  9. digitalsc.lib.vt.edu › exhibits › showCelebrating Virginia Tech: A Chronology of 150 Years

    The first students—only White males were admitted—arrived in Blacksburg for the Fall 1872 session. — Adapted from No Ordinary Moment: Virginia Tech, 150 Years in 150 Images (Virginia Tech Publishing, expected 2022) Photo of Preston and Olin Institute, ca. 1870. Photo of Burruss Hall and the Drillfield, 1991

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