West Virginia State University West Virginia State University West Virginia State University (WVSU) is an historically black public university founded in 1891 in Institute, West Virginia. In the Charleston-metro area, the school is usually referred to simply as "State" or "West Virginia State". It is one of the original group of African American land-grant colleges established by the second Morrill Act of 1890. African-American students currently are a minority of attending students. The University is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The university's Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute is divided into three programmatic divisions: WVSU Extension Service, WVSU Agricultural and Environmental Research
Virginia State Route 412 Virginia State Route 412 State Route 412 (SR 412) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Prices Fork Road, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 460 (US 460) east to US 460 Business within Blacksburg in northern Montgomery County. SR 412 connects US 460 with downtown Blacksburg and the northern end of the campus of Virginia Tech. SR 412 begins at a partial cloverleaf interchange with US 460, which bypasses the center of Blacksburg to the west. Prices Fork Road continues west as an unnumbered highway to the western town limit, where the