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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University I2E |
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 Picture Courtesy of Garry Thompson
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University was founded in 1872 as a land-grant college specializing in agriculture and mechanics. The land-grant college system marked the beginning of scientific agricultural and industrial instruction in the Commonwealth. Over the next century Virginia Tech became nationally recognized as a comprehensive research university with a broad range of scientific, technological, business, and liberal arts instruction. The 3,000-acre main campus includes the site of Drapers Meadow where settlers were killed and captured on 8 July 1755 by Ohio- based Shawnee Indians at the beginning of the French and Indian War.
Department of Historic Resources 1996
Rt. 314 at Virginia Tech, off of US460, Blacksburg. Montgomery County Virginia
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