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Hampton Academy
school, Virginia, United States
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significance to Virginia
- In Hampton
…schools merged in 1805 as Hampton Academy, which was later absorbed into the city’s public school system. Hampton University (1868) was established by General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, an agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to educate former slaves. Thomas Nelson Community College opened there in 1968. Incorporated as a town in…
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