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Head, Department of Agronomy 1914-1945Dean, School of Agriculture 1946-1950
Thomas Barksdale Hutcheson lived in the dairy barn atVirginia Agricultural and Mechanical College andPolytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech), working his waythrough colle…
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Director, Agricultural Extension Services 1919-1945President 1945-1947Chancellor 1947-1956President, VPI Foundation 1948-1962
Alumnus president John Redd Hutcheson worked tirelessly to prepare VPI for the flood of returningWorld War II veterans…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRS0_carol-montgomery-newman_Blacksburg-VA.html
Professor 1903-1941Dean, Academic Department 1915-1920Chairman, English Department 1916-1941
Known as VPI's godfather of extracurricular activities, Carol Montgomery Newman headed the English and Language Departments, taught English and Rhetori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRRT_montgomery-county-confederate-monument_Christiansburg-VA.html
To the memoryof Montgomery's sonswho fell in theLost Causeand toall the Confederate deadwho lie beneath her soil.
This monumentis erected by her daughters1861-1865
In this countylie the remains of300 Confederate soldiersfromsister Southern s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRRL_montgomery-county-war-memorial_Christiansburg-VA.html
Dedicated to thememory of thesecitizens of Mont-gomery County,Virginia, who madethe supremesacrifice in theservice of ourcountry in theworld conflicts
Sponsored and erected bythe Montgomery CountyAmerican Legion Post No. 59in co-operation with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRRD_william-black_Blacksburg-VA.html
Just northeast stood the home of William Black, the founder of Blacksburg. In 1797, he laid out a 16-block grid and petitioned the Virginia General Assembly to incorporate a town here; the legislature approved his petition on 13 January 1798. On 4…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRR3_virginia-tech-airport_Blacksburg-VA.html
The airport was founded in 1931 as a college-owned facility. School funds and a grant from the Works Progress Administration in the early 1940s paid for paving a runway and building a hangar. Two training programs offered here made the airport imp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRR2_christiansburg-industrial-institute_Christiansburg-VA.html
In 1866, Captain Charles S. Schaeffer, a Freedmen's Bureau agent, organized a school for blacks on the hill just to the southeast. Charles L. Marshall of Tuskeegee Institute became principal of the school in 1896. Under his guidance and with suppo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRR1_lewis-mchenry-duel_Christiansburg-VA.html
In this town occurred the duel between Thomas Lewis and John McHenry in May, 1808. This was the first duel with rifles known to have taken place in Virginia. It resulted in the death of both men. Dr. John Floyd, later Governor of Virginia and memb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP3C_virginia-polytechnic-institute-and-state-university_Blacksburg-VA.html
Five miles south lies the main campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, founded in 1872 as a land-grant college specializing in agriculture and mechanical arts. The land-grant college system initiated scientific agricultural …