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| | Virginia State University Online Research :: Information about Virginia State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Virginia State University, located in Ettrick, Virginia (near Petersburg, Virginia, in the Richmond, Virginia area), was founded on March 6, 1882. |
 | | Following the American Civil War, William Mahone (1826-1895) of Petersburg, Virginia was the driving force in the linkage of Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, Southside Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad in 1870 to form the Atlantic, Mississippi Ohio Railroad (AMandO), a new line extending from Norfolk, Virginia to Bristol, Virginia. |
 | | He became a Senator in the Congress of the United States from Virginia, arranged for the proceeds of the A,M and O sale to help founded a school for teachers near Petersburg, Virginia. |
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