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The campus was founded on the grounds of "Little Scotland", a former plantation in Elizabeth City County that is located on the Hampton River.It overlooked Hampton Roads and was not far from Fortress Monroe and the Grand Contraband Camp, that gathered formerly enslaved men and women who sought refuge with Union forces in the South during the first year of the war.
Charles Holston Williams (January 25, 1886 – 1978) was an American choreographer and professor of physical education. He was the organizer and first director of the Hampton Institute Creative Dance Group, the first national touring company composed of college students.
Emancipation Oak is a historic tree on the campus of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, in the United States. The large, sprawling southern live oak (Quercus virginiana), believed to be over 200 years old, [2] is 98 feet (30 m) in diameter, with branches which extend upward as well as laterally.
“It was a marrying of the new and old, and kind of bringing us into the future,” said Joe Linnehan of the Galley Hatch Restaurant.
Old Dominion University has a satellite campus in Hampton, VA, known as the ODU Peninsula Center. ODU Peninsula Center is a full-service facility offering upper-level undergraduate 300- and 400-level degree completion classes, graduate and certificate programs, admissions, registration, advising, and other student services for residents of ...
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In 1962, Phenix High School relocated to a new building off campus which was in the Hampton City Public School system. This was Hampton's only high school for students of color, at the time. The class of 1965 was the largest class to graduate from Phenix High School.
WHOV is the radio station of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, United States.It broadcasts jazz, gospel, and R&B music to the Hampton Roads area from its studios in the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communication and transmitter located separately on the Hampton University campus.