Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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SPOST UCE STA7IOPI5 iroEii«$i«w.yAg«oi :«355 Mary Washington College was bom during the surge for increased educational facilities in the state in the early twentieth century. Due to a struggle in the state legislature over the location of the new normal school, two schools were approved at once. The appropiations bill providing for the construction of normal schools in Fredericksburg and Harrisonburg was signed on March 14, 1908. The site for the Fredericksburg State Normal and Industrial School for Women, as M.W.C. was called then, was another struggle. Finally, the present site was settled upon. The 45.4 acre site was purchased from Captain M. B. Rowe in August 1909. The first session of the normal school began on September 26, 1911. The Dormitory, as Willard was called, contained a dining room, infirmary, laundry, rooms for faculty and students, a reading room, a kitchen, and parlors. The Administration Building (Mo nroe) contained a swimming pool, dressing rooms, a gymnasium, library, classrooms, and manual arts laboratories.