Virginia Military Institute Historic District

has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America

1975

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Letcher Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Barracks     The Virginia Military Institute

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States.

U. S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1966

Marker is on Letcher Avenue, on ...

National Historic Landmark-Virginia Military Institute Barracks

Formally organized in 1839, VMI has a long tradition of training military leaders. Incorporated into the present structure of this gothic style cadet barracks building, notable among the buildings on the campus, is part of the original barracks wall from ...

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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 and industrial instruction in the Commonwealth. ...

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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 ...

Virginia Military Institute

A National Historic Landmark

The nation's first state military college, VMI was founded in 1839 on the concept of the citizen-soldier. The Corps of Cadets fought as a unit in the 1864 Battle of New Market. Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson and ...

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

(VIMS)

Using science to…

Increase oyster and clam production

Model Bay dynamics

Identify aquatic disease

Reduce billfish by-catch

Trace contaminants

Understand food web production

Increase blue crab populations

Explore bottom dwellers

Restore seagrass

Strengthen natural stocks

Investigate coastal erosion

Understand nutrient cycles

The Nation’s leading research facility focusing on coastal and estuarine science

Since 1940, ...

Virginia Institute

Near this spot stood the frame dwelling of David Frederick Bittle, pastor of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church, in which he began in the Fall of 1842, with the assistance of Christopher C. Baughman, also a Lutheran minister, a school for ...

Virginia Military Institute

A National Historic Landmark

The nation's first state military college, VMI was founded in 1839 on the concept of the citizen-soldier. The Corps of Cadets fought as a unit in the 1864 Battle of New Market. Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson and ...