Roy Jay Holden

(1870-1945)

Professor 1905-1945

Head, Department of Geology 1907-1945

The head of VPI's Geology Department for 38 years, noted geologist Roy Jay Holden sited Virginia's first gas well, located water wells when a shortage threatened VPI, and assessed the safety of the Claytor Lake ...

John William Hancock Jr.

(1904-1994)

Class of 1925

Member, Board of Visitors 1963-1971

Board Chairman, Virginia Tech Foundation

1969-1973, 1986-1991

A generous benefactor of his Alma mater, John W. Hancock Jr. was an astute businessman who founded Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation and John W. Hancock Jr. Inc. He was ...

Thomas Marshall Hahn Jr.

(1926- )

Head, Department of Physics 1954-1959

President 1962-1974

President Emeritus 1975-

One of the university’s greatest presidents, T. Marshall Hahn Jr. engineered Virginia Tech’s evolution from a college to a major research university. The dynamic leader severed ties with Radford College and made ...

John Wesley Powell

From Green River, Wyoming on May 24, 1869 Major John Wesley Powell and a group of voyagers set out to discover the mysteries of one of the last unexplored regions in the continental United States--the Green and Colorado Rivers. Powell ...

James A. Everett

Founder of Fort Valley

Here on the Indian Path that connected two Indian Trails, from Hartford to Fort Hawkins and from Barnard’s Crossing to the Old Creek Agency, James Abbington Everett established, in the 1820’s, the Indian Trading Post around which ...

Major Guy M. Bryan, C.S.A.

1821-1901

Born in Missouri. Rode a mule to Texas in 1831 to join his uncle, Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas. A private in Texas War for Independence. Legislator, congressman, member of Texas Secession Convention. Enlisted as a private in ...

Johnson School-house Game Refuge

175 acres, purchased May 25, 1926, from L. Atwood Bennett, attorney for mortgagee; from hunter’s license fund for the purpose of propagating game.

Marker is on Mt. Olive Road 0.6 miles south of Johnson Road, on the left when traveling south. ...

Death of Gen. John Hunt Morgan

"... bring Morgan out dead or alive."

On September 3-4, 1864, Lt.Col. William H. Ingerton led the 13th Tennessee Cavalry (USA) to Greeneville's outskirts, where he learned that Gen.John Hunt Morgan was at the Dickson-Williams Mansion. He told his company commanders, ...

Jackson

In 1848, was a village of huts and tents called

"BOTTILEAS”

by the Mexicans from the bottles strewn about by those who tarried here.

In 1849, it was named

JACKSON

for Colonel Jackson an early day resident.

In 1853, Amador County was carved out ...

Major Mitchell Explorer

Major T.Mitchell

Explorer

Passed Here 7th July 1836

Erected by Shire of Korong

1930

Marker is on Specimen Road, on the left when traveling south.

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