Virginia State University is a historically black and land-grant university located in Petersburg, Virginia in the Richmond area. Founded on March 6, 1882 (1882-03-06), Virginia State was the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.
Following the American Civil War, William Mahone (1826-1895) of Petersburg,...
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Virginia State University is a historically black and land-grant university located in Petersburg, Virginia in the Richmond area. Founded on March 6, 1882 (1882-03-06), Virginia State was the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.
Following the American Civil War, William Mahone (1826-1895) of Petersburg, Virginia was the driving force in the linkage of Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, South Side Railroad and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad in 1870 to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O;), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol. After several years of operating under receiverships, Mahone's role as a railroad builder ended in 1881 when the AM&O; was sold at auction to form the Norfolk and Western Railway.
Mahone, a former Confederate general best known as the hero of the Battle of the Crater, later led Virginia's...
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