Longwood University is a public university in Farmville, Virginia. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary and colloquially known as Longwood or Longwood College, it is the third-oldest public university in Virginia and one of the hundred oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Previously a female seminary, normal school, and college, Longwood became coeducational in 1976 and gained university status on July 1, 2002.
The Rotunda
Farmville Female Seminary
Joan of Arc statue under the Rotunda
Lancaster Hall (President's Office)
Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 7,473 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County.
Downtown Farmville in June 2017.
High Bridge Photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1865
Robert Russa Moton High School, Farmville, VA
Vince Gilligan