A hand book of Virginia . e Chesapeake and Ohio railway, connecting with the West. Statistics compUed by a prominent physician indicate climatic conditionsin the county as the very best to be found anywhere. The water supply is abund-ant. The public school system embraces high school, normal and agriculturalschools, and well supervised graded schools. The streets of the city are pavedwith granolithic sidewalks. It has an excellent municipal government, repletein all of its departments. Located here is the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, for the educa-tion and training of negroes and
A hand book of Virginia . e Chesapeake and Ohio railway, connecting with the West. Statistics compUed by a prominent physician indicate climatic conditionsin the county as the very best to be found anywhere. The water supply is abund-ant. The public school system embraces high school, normal and agriculturalschools, and well supervised graded schools. The streets of the city are pavedwith granolithic sidewalks. It has an excellent municipal government, repletein all of its departments. Located here is the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, for the educa-tion and training of negroes and Indians, with a capacity of about nine hundredstudents, and an efficient corps of teachers and professors. It was opened in 1868,and incorporated in 1870, being the first permanent school for freedom in theSouth. It is aided by both the State and National governments, but is dependentupon voluntary donations for the greater part of its support. Other institutions of learning, located here, are the Hampton Female College,. gJLQ ON A VIRGINIA DAIRY FARM, 123 the Hampton High School, the Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and BlindChildren, and the Syms-Eaton free school, all in successful operation; also, numbersof other handsome buildings, notably the Bank of Hampton building, constructedat a cost of about $100,000. Truck farming in the immediate vincinity is an important factor to that section. Hampton is one of Americas most conspicuous cities from an historical pointof view—conspicuous as being next to the oldest city in the United States, and ashaving a frontage on the greatest harbor known to the world, in which occurred(near by) the great battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Having been destroyed three times by fire, owing to the terrible vicissitudes ofthree Americas most notable wars, Hampton has risen phoenix-like from the ashesof calamity, and by her thrift, energy and prosperity, proclaims that the end isnot yet, in the history of the Old Game Cock Town
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