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Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Founded as a women’s college in 1932, [ 4 ] it became co-educational in 1969. It is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education .
College of William & Mary: Colony of Virginia: 1693 [nb 2] 1693 [6] 1694 [7] 1694 Church of England [nb 3] (Episcopalian) No Collegiate School (Yale University ...
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
The Virginia State Colony for the Epileptics and Feeble Minded was a state run institution for those considered to be “Feeble minded” or those with severe mental impairment. The colony opened in 1910 near Lynchburg, Virginia , in Madison Heights with the goal of isolating those with mental disabilities and other qualities deemed unfit for ...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered that the pilot program for AP African American studies classes be reconsidered, but ultimately allowed the program to proceed, stepping out of line with other ...
November 18, 1618: The Virginia Company of London issues its "Instructions to George Yeardley," which includes the establishment of the ancient planter/headright system. Part of the purpose was to encourage settlers to emigrate to Virginia, which included building a college. These instructions come to be known as the Great Charter. [37]
The campus was founded in 1884 and became a mixed-gender school in 1972.. The college closed in May 2014 due to financial issues and the loss of accreditation, so it sat boarded up with the ...