Virginia High School - Rohian / Star Of The North Yearbook (Virginia, MN)

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iii' , T11 , vm jg: h,. W VVVV VVVVAVVAAI- V VVVV VVVVVVVV VVVVVVVVA.-A-A I I I mu IVVVVVVVVVVVVVIAAAAAA .-4......AV.. 1 V W V mm-mm r , i1i better equipment to maintain the educational system. In 1903 the Roosevelt building was erected, followed in 1906 by the John- son school. The former has this year been razed to make way for a new Junior High School building. Until 1909 there had been lacking the proper facilities for a high school education so in that year the Techni- cal High School was erected, and in 1914 enlarged to its present size. By 1912 the Virginia northside was so settled that to take care of the needs the Jefferson school at Eighth Avenue and Fourteenth Street North was erected, and in 1923 the Washington school at Eighth Avenue and Ninth Street North was con- structed. In 1924, after the necessary addition to the Southside School, built in 1914 at Tenth Street South and Fifth Avenue, had been completed, it was named the Horace Mann Building. The latest acquisition to the educational department of Virginia was the James Madison Building. With these well equipped institutions of learning Virginia offers its youths every opportunity possible for their life work. HORACE MANN BUILDING Virgina gradually took on a new aspect more nearly as it is today. The first paving was on Chestnut Street in 1906 and re- mained until two years ago when it was repaved and replaced with concrete. In 1908 a municipal fire department began to protect our homes, replacing the faith- ful volunteer members. In 1910 the First National Bank Building,-Virginia's tallest structure--was erected. The post-office, formerly housed in a frame building on l VIRGINIA AND RAINY LAKE MILL Chestnut Street, in 1911 entered a new building which stands at the corner of Third Avenue and First Street South. In 1913 the City of Virginia bought the Water and Light Department. In 1918 municipal gas entered the Virginia housewife's kitchen, and two years later municipal steam. which now heats eighty-four blocks, replacing the furnaces in many of our residences and public buildings. SCHOOL GARAGE AND BUSSES Virginia has risen, as we believe, to be the finest city of its size in the State of Minnesota. Her present population is num- bered at sixteen thousand people. During the last twenty years, her streets have all been paved, and during the last five years ,,,.,,,,.,. ..,,,.,,,,,., N, ,,,,,,,,. , .,,,, M. ,,,. 1.1-1 ,,,,,,,,, ,N ,,,.,,,, -, ,,,.,. ,,,,..,,.,.,,,,,, , ,,,,,,,,,,,,, M ,'f1C11f ' ' ' ' 'f'fff f N C'7'TLC ' 3 f f f ,,,.., , ,, , K, fffygg-g1,,, ww'-fvffqyf f'-- ffm' ., W 1, fw WM.: 1' ? Ava Z 2 21159, ':55.f:7fg, 're--3446 .'f 'amiv5'1ff'f '4,,zetsewfffw gf' 5 ff'.'i6Zf7 ?H,.,.:f'-ff ...fray w,,,5:za:1: 'H,,i,,,m:::,'L9e,1,2f'5z I ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,M ,,,,, ,WMW,,,MN ',', ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ........,, , , ,M ,,,,,,,,,, H ,,,,,,,,, MW ,,,, WWW, .,,, f .,.. --f---',,f,... W ,N ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, fffff ,M WW, ,,,,,, ,,,, M ,,,,,,,,,,, W ,W M ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, y A4

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X f Aff 'f41f2yQW , 'Z' 'W kr--. Among the founders of Virginia were Captain M. L. Fay, who came in 1898 and who in 1903 was elected mayor, Captain John Gill, captain of the Norman Mineg U. S. POST OFFICE and J. H. Pearce, superintendent of the Commodore Mine. These men together with others too numerous to mention, all con- tributed greatly to the Virginia of today. On Thursday forenoon, June 7, 1900, a warning was sounded to all the people an-' nouncing another very destructive fire. Again Virginia, for the most part but not completely, was reduced to ashes. Even this second fire was not enough to cause the residents of Virginia to give up. On the contrary they decided to make Virginia a real city with all the improve- ments that any city could have. Work be-- gan immediately rebuilding the fire-eaten buildings and removing the charred re- mains. In 1902 the Fay hotel was erected on Chestnut Street at Fifth Avenue. -The Fay Opera House, erected the same year diago- nally across the corner, served as the scene THE JEFFERSON BUILDING of entertainments until the High School Auditorium afforded a better place. In 1905 the Oliver Iron Mining Company moved their headquarters to Virginia from Mountain Iron. One of the original build- ings of the Mountain Iron headquarters was what is now the Mohami Club building on Eleventh Street North and Sixth Avenue. The educational needs of Virginia were ever increasing and led to the obtaining of THE ROOSEVELT BUILDING THE WASHINGTON BUILDING ,, ,,,,,,..,,, ,... ,I ,.,,......, ...... s...7,...,ZZ ,..... S --., :,..f+ff .Z , W' ZZ,.M.fZa7.T.Z...,.,,.....Z.::: ..,. W. .,.....1T....1...W-.,:.,.....:.., ,,,,,,., .T ,..v . Z1 ,.,.. ..... . I r f ' ' f ..,.,...........,..,,...,,,.,,,....,........,.,,,,, M .....,..,.. WM- .,.,.,, ....,..,,.M-M-9.-Mr:-ww ff'f' N W 'fff ff f I , W M., .,,.,,,,.,,,,.,. .4 ww, MW., M., .,... -.., .... W., ,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, f K 1: 7 ' Q05 .2

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N ,.., ,ff 4 N1 her alleys also. Her city streets are a net- work of cement sidewalks, boulevards, and shade trees. Virginia is the home of the largest cork pine sawmill and planing plant in the world, the Virginia and Rainy Lake Company mills, number two and three. All roads, mostly paved, lead to Virginia- the Queen City of the Iron Range. She is afforded excellent steam, electric, and motor bus transportation facilities. Virginia, in the heart of the Arrowhead Country of Minnesota, is the gateway to the summer playground of America in the land of the ten thousand lakes. K - H, . . ,lag SCHOOL FARM CITY HALL 1 ZL'1Li?M'Z15Li:iM'iiziiizrwitfiir 1 :r:1z11:gi'W 3f':1::f1f:7 f2211z1ff :pre r11111:'M''iiiiitq:::g N'N 11i:':, ' fi iiiix .,,, f.c,,,,,c.MM ,,,, qw, ,,,,.,,....,, ,,,.,.,, 1 ..,,,,,. l..g,41..,,W,i,: .,,, ,,,,, f , .me ,,,,,,,.,...,.,, gff411:rg1:11,,, ' h fgpizgiaxpzzzizfgii ,,,,, 111: ,,..,,, 4.4