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Vawter Hall was built and named in 1908 in honor of the school's late rector and authority on industrial training, Charles E. Vawter. The school was originally chartered as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1882, created through an agreement with the Readjuster Party to found a state-supported school of higher learning for blacks. [3]
American Placer Corporation office. The American Placer Corporation office was established at Lee's Ferry in 1910 and abandoned the next year. In that interval, the company constructed a steamboat, the Charles H. Spencer, named for the company's founder, to transport coal mined farther up the river to the company's amalgamation operation at Lee's Ferry.
Marble Canyon is the site of one of the last great proposed dam projects on the Colorado, the Marble Canyon Dam. Proposed and investigated in the early 1950s by the United States Bureau of Reclamation , [ 1 ] the proposal met substantial opposition, notably from the Sierra Club , when a revived proposal was considered by the state of Arizona as ...
The Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. If there's one state in the U.S. that has a wealth of history to dive into, it's Virginia, and with all it has to offer, it can be a little ...
Lees Ferry is located in northern Arizona, at the point where the Paria River joins the Colorado from the north. Lying in an open valley directly downstream from Glen Canyon and shortly above Marble Canyon (the uppermost section of the Grand Canyon), it is the only place in more than 260 miles (420 km) where the Colorado is not hemmed in by sheer canyon walls.
Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on March 6, 1882 ( 1882-03-06 ) , Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for Black Americans.
Azurest South was the home and workplace of Amaza Lee Meredith, one of the nation's first black female architects.Located on the campus of Virginia State University, the home is one of the few examples of the Post World War I German style: International Style in Virginia.
Navajo Bridges over Marble Canyon along US 89A, June 2009. This was part of mainline US 89 until the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. In 1960, US 89 was moved to a new, more northerly route and the old route became US 89A. The Utah segment of US 89A was first commissioned as part of Utah State Route 11.