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JMU Historic Photos Online:  Buildings: Jackson Hall

12  photographs total  

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Control #:  Bjac001 Date: c.1913 Location:  Campus Size: 4 x 3 Condition:  Good  Comments:  Written on back: E. (Elizabeth Kelly) christening Burruss Hall which was Dormitory #1 1913.   [NOTE:  Dorm #1 was Jackson Hall.  The name Burruss was proposed for it by the class of 1913 after the institution's president, Julian Burruss, but the president adopted a policy of naming buildings only after deceased persons.  The class then proposed the name Jackson Hall to honor Gen. Stonewall Jackson. This name was formally designated at the fifth reunion of the class in 1918. See Dingledine's Madison College:  The First Fifty Years.]
Control #: Bjac002 Date:  1909? Location:  Campus Size:  4 x 3 Condition: Good Comments: Written on back: The town people that came for the laying of the corner stone.  The board walk during those early years.  The Fravel house on the left.  The Smyite house on the right where we lived the years before the school started.
Control #: Bjac003  Date: 1918? Location:  Campus Size: 4 x 3 Condition: Good Comments:  Written on back:  Dr.. Wayland making the prayers at the christening of Burruss Hall which was Dormitory # 1 [NOTE:  See note for photo #1]	.
Control #: Bjac004 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size: 4 x 3 Condition: Good Comments: Written on back: Rear view of Dormitory #1
Control #: Bjac005 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size:  4 x 3 Condition: Good Comments:  Written on back: Christening of Dormitory #1.  Old board walk in background.
Control #:  Bjac006 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size:   7 x 5 Condition:  Good Comments:
Control #: Bjac007 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size:  9 x 5 Condition:  Good Comments:
Control #: Bjac008 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size:   9 x 7 Condition:  Good Comments:
Control #: Bjac009 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size:   9 1/2 x 8 Condition:  Good Comments:
Control #: Bjac010 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size:   9 x 7 Condition:  Good Comments:
Control #: Bjac011 Date:  Pre 1985 Location:  Campus Size:   8 x 6 Condition:  Good Comments:
Control #: Bjac012 Date:  ca. 1917 Location:  Campus Size:   3 1/2 x 2 1/2 Condition:  Good Comments: Written on back: 1st Dormitory: Jackson Hall ca. 1917