The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . pine needles, whichsoften the footfall of the reverent visitor until the fum treadof the angel shall be heard as he blows the reville whichshall summon the ^varrior spirits to greet the warriorsbanner. The simple, uniform headstones here testifyto the democracy of death, for the same style stone marksthe resting place of officer and private as they are laid sideby side. The new cemetery is near the old one to the have been about three thousand interments to present there is an average or about twentv burialsof the ol
The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . pine needles, whichsoften the footfall of the reverent visitor until the fum treadof the angel shall be heard as he blows the reville whichshall summon the ^varrior spirits to greet the warriorsbanner. The simple, uniform headstones here testifyto the democracy of death, for the same style stone marksthe resting place of officer and private as they are laid sideby side. The new cemetery is near the old one to the have been about three thousand interments to present there is an average or about twentv burialsof the old veterans a month, which too sadly remindsus that soon the survi\ors of the Great War will bewith us no longer. Near the new cemeteiy are the Dixie llospital, and theWhittier Training School for negro children under thecontrol of the Hampton Normal School. CEAT of the Hampton Normal and l^*^*^ S Agricultural institute, designed to give negroes and indianS; an idus- trial training. The original farm of 125 acres bordering on Hampton Creek, one half mile. V I ?i I VIEW OF NORMAL SCHOOL south of Hampton, were purchased by the AmericanMissionary Association in 1867 at the instance of GeneralS. C. Armstrong. Present enroUment of indians 100;negroes 1180. The most disth^iguished graduate of the schoolis Booker T. Washington. The first cargo of negro slaveswas landed not far from this school in 161Q, and this wasthe fust school founded for the industrial training of thenegro. It is under philanthropic and non-sectarian control. There are but two buildings in the Normal Schoolgrounds that were there before the war, and these havebeen remodeled; one is the residence of Dr. H. B. Frissell,which formerly belonged to Dr. Wood, and the other wasused fore de war for a school building for colored chil-dren, and is now the Whittier School. The school grounds now contain 188 acres exclusiveof Shellback farm. Total graduates 1158; ex-students, not graduates, 5,000;trade school graduates, 277; I
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