About Longwood University

Longwood University is a public university circles in Farmville, Virginia. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary Association, it is the third-oldest public academic world in Virginia and one of the hundred oldest institutions of far along education in the United States. Longwood became a university on July 1, 2002.

Three undergraduate academic colleges—the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Economics, and the College of Education and Human Services—supported by the Cormier Honors College and coupled taking into consideration the College of Graduate and Professional Studies support an enrollment of 5,096.

The college circles occupies a unique geographic place in U.S. history: in ahead of time April 1865 both Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant marched in the same way as the north decline of campus on Lee’s retreat to Appomattox just days in the past the fade away of the American Civil War; at the south fade away of campus lies the former Robert Russa Moton High School, site of the historic 1951 student strike that became one of the five court cases culminating in the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision; and Israel Hill, a community of forgive black people formed on the tilt of the 19th century, stands two miles from campus.

Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 8,216 at the 2010 census. It is the county chair of Prince Edward County.

Farmville developed near the headwaters of the Appomattox River in central Virginia; the waterway was long its main transportation entrance to other markets. In the 19th century, a railroad was build up here. Since the late 20th century, the former railway has been converted to the High Bridge Trail State Park, a beyond 30-mile-long (48 km) rail trail park. US 15, VA 45 and US 460 now intersect at Farmville. The town is the home of Longwood University and is the town nearest to Hampden–Sydney College.