Lexington, Virginia, Virginia Military Institute

The Virginia Military Institute

Hamilton Historical Records

On November 11, 1839, the Virginia Military Institute was established in Lexington, Virginia as the first military college of United States.

The institute has served as the training grounds for future soldiers and sailors for almost 200 years and is the oldest such continually operating military college in the United States.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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