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
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 demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech.
Downtown Blacksburg
Blacksburg's old town hall
The downtown Post Office in Blacksburg
Coal Breaker of the Virginia Anthracite Coal Company at Merrimac Mines near Blacksburg, 1904