Boyce Agricultural High School - Echo Yearbook (Boyce, VA)

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® I3 e € c Ij 0 % IrTirgtnia The roses nowhere bloom so white, as in Virginia, The sun shines nowhere quite so bright, as in Virginia, I ' he birds sing nowhere quite so sweet, And nowhere hearts so lightly beat, For heaven and earth both seem to meet down in Virginia. The days are nowhere quite so long, as in Virginia, Nor now ' here quite so filled with song-, as in Virginia, And when it comes my time to die. Just take me back and let me lie, Close where the James goes rolling by. down in Virginia, There is nowhere a land so fair, as Old Virginia, So full of joy, so free from care, as Old Virginia, And I believe that happy land. The Lord’s prepared for mortal n:an Is built exactly on the plan of Old Virginia. 1 6 Eleven

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Greenway Court Office The office of the late Lord Fairfax, situated one and one-half miles south White Post. Much of the land in this estate was surveyed by George W ashington. estate. The White Post was originally constructed as a guide to this 1 9 2 9 4 I I I I I 5| I i I I 3. 3. 1 I I 3 i Lord Fairfax’s Iron Chest Used by the late Lord Fairfax as a safe-keeper for valuables, by the Shenandoah Valley National Bank of Winchester, Va. Now owned “Our ag ' ricultural high schools haye a g ' reat field for useful service. After all is said and done, Virginia is an agricultural state and as Flenry W. Grady once said in an address to farmers, ‘Brains mix better with the soil than, fhe waste of sea birds,’ — meaning thereby that intellig’ent husbandry was more effective than Peruvian guano.” • — G. Walter Mapp. a n 1 Thirteen