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Department Head, ArchitecturalEngineering 1928-1956The founder of VPI's Department of Architectural Engineering, forerunner of today's Architecture program, Clinton H. Gowgill guided the department's growth from 34 students and two professors to 2…
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Dean, Architecture and Urban Studies1965-1979University Distinguished Professor 1966-1979Dean Emeritus 1979-1990
An innovative thinker, Charles H. Burchard organized Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies, creating a program …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMST1_william-addison-caldwell_Blacksburg-VA.html
Craig County farm boy Add Caldwellwalked 26 miles to enroll here in 1872as the first student. The popular cadetmajored in agriculture and worked as ateacher, clerk, and salesman before hisdeath in 1910.
Donated by the Class of 1956Sculpture by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSR7_prices-fork_Blacksburg-VA.html
Price's Fork is within the area often referred to as the German New River Settlement. Before 1745, German immigrants moved from Pennsylvania and began settling in this region within the Price's Fork-Tom's Creek area near and along the horseshoe bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSR6_fort-vause_Shawsville-VA.html
Ephraim Vause was appointed Captain of Horse in 1753 and was considered a man of considerable influence. For the protection of his family and his neighbors he built a simple palisaded fort nearby on his farm. In June 1756, during the French and In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSR5_virginia-polytechnic-institute-and-state-university_Blacksburg-VA.html
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 …
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What is wrong with Stroubles Creek?
Stroubles Creek is considered "impaired" by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality because it does not support a diverse community of aquatic insects and fish. The main pollutants are sediment and b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRS6_the-stroubles-creek-watershed-and-the-duck-pond_Blacksburg-VA.html
Learn about your watershedA watershed or drainage basin, is the area of land where all the water that drains off it runs to a specific point on a watercourse, usually a confluence of stream or river.
The Stroubles Creek watershed is a sub-water…
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Faculty member 1900-1945Head, Horticulture Department 1902-1908Dean, School of Agriculture 1908-1945
An easy-going, amiable man, Harvey Lee Price served VPI for more than four decades after earning two degrees here. He moved quickly through the…
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State Demonstration Agent 1907-1917
Called the father of farm demonstration and extension work in Virginia, Thomas Oldham Sandy was a progressive farmer who promoted improved scientific education in agriculture. He became the Commonwealth's fir…