Sullins College - Sampler Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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and this is the Sullins of On September 27, 1917, the new Sullins College opened. Situated in Virginia Park, about a mile out of Bristol, it has grown from three buildings on a thirty-five acre campus to thirteen buildings on a two hundred sixty-nine acre campus.

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was established in 1870 by DR. DAVID SULLINS who was its president from 1870 to 1880. rooms below and rooms for boarding pupils above. Dr. Sullins himself bought two acres just between the school property and Cumberland Street, and built a plain wooden house of eight or nine rooms, with dining room and kitchen in the basement. With this house and the upper story of the new school building they were able to accommodate fifty boarders. In 1870, the school opened in its own buildings with an enrollment of about forty boarding pupils and over a hundred day pupils, many of whom were from a distance boarding in town. And the trustees called the school Sullins College. As the years passed, the enrollment increased and new buildings were added — a north wing and a south wing to the old building and in 1899, a splen- did new four-story building. And then, near the end of the Christmas holidays in 1915, the Old Sul- lins burned to the ground. Above: The Old Sullins burns. At Left: The Main building of the old Sul- lins College, erected in 1899. Before the erection of this building, two wings had been added to the original building. Page 9

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DR. WILLIAM E. MARTIN . . . who was closely associ- ated with the old Sullins, was a moving force in the build- ing of the new Sullins. He has been its beloved presi- dent since its opening in 1917 .