Blacksburg, Virginia
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Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census. Blacksburg and the surrounding county is dominated economically and de
Downtown Blacksburg
Blacksburg's old town hall
The downtown Post Office in Blacksburg
A coal breaker at the Virginia Anthracite Coal Company at Merrimac Mines near Blacksburg in 1904
Virginia Tech shooting
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The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting and mass shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universi
Blacksburg, Virginia
…Road adjacent to the property housing Kipps Elementary School. On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 people dead and injured an additional 17 in the Virginia Tech shooting before committing suicide. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting on a college campus since the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966. On…
A candlelight vigil following the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus on April 17, 2007
Aerial photo showing location of Harper Hall (Cho's dorm), Norris Hall, West Ambler Johnston Hall, and the Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. Post Office
Elementary French class students take cover in Holden Hall room 212.
The Hokies released 32 balloons before their 2007 football opener as part of a ceremony in the victims' memory.