Blackstone College for Girls

Blackstone College for Girls was a private, religious school for young women in Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia. The school operated under the auspices of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South between 1894 and 1950. Virginia's Department of Historic Resources acknowledged the significance of the site by erecting historical marker number K 174 in 1996. Blackstone College is also designated as a site on the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail. The school buildings still stand. Since 1955, the Virginia United Methodist Church has used the former school buildings as a conference center. The Blackstone Female Institute received its charter from the Virginia state legislature on February 15, 1892 and...