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Preston and Olin Institute

school, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

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    The Preston and Olin Institute, a Methodist school founded in 1854, became the nucleus of Virginia Tech, which was established in 1872. It was then known as Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical College and was Virginia’s land-grant college under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862;…

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