Virginia Military Institute Historic District is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) portion of the Virginia Military Institute that was declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The district includes Barracks, Virginia Military Institute, which was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. It may include Stono, a place separately listed on the National Register.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
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“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)
“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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