Virginia Truck Experiment Station (1907-1967)
Organization
Dates
- Usage: 1907 - 1967
Historical Note
Virginia Truck Experiment Station (1907-1967), later Virginia Truck and Ornamentals Research Station (1967-1987), later Hampton Roads Agricultural Experiment Station (1987-1992), later Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center (1992-present). Incorporated into Virginia Tech 1985.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Records of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Record Group
Identifier: RG-25-01
Abstract
The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station (VAES) was established in 1886 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the federal Hatch Act of 1887 for the purpose of providing practical and useful information on agricultural and scientific subjects. The collection includes 114 surveys books for ten counties in Virginia from 1931 through 1940, as well as files dated 1903-1947 of weather reports, annual reports of investigations of the field laboratories, and a large amount of...
Dates:
1903 - 1947