The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Road to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus. The Virginia Tech campus consists of 130 buildings on approximately 2,600 acres (11 km2). It was the site of the Draper's Meadow massacre in 1755 during the French and Indian War.
Burruss Hall, the main administration building and iconic symbol of the Virginia Tech Blacksburg campus.
Cowgill Hall with Burchard Hall in the foreground
Norris Hall
Joseph F. Ware, Jr.
Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872.
Virginia Tech's Burruss Hall
VT's 6th president, Paul Brandon Barringer
Virginia Polytechnic Institute logo in the 1899 yearbook
A Jaguar Mark VII (left) and Chevrolet Deluxe cars parked in front of Patton Hall, ca 1952