Volleyball Hall of Fame Volleyball Hall of Fame The International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF) was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The Hall of Fame is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan at the local YMCA. In 1971 the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce established a committee to campaign for the founding of the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1978, the committee incorporated as Holyoke Volleyball Hall of Fame, Inc., a nonprofit corporation established for the purpose of planning,
Peter G. Morgan (politician) Peter G. Morgan (politician) Peter G. Morgan (October 21, 1817 – March 15, 1890), born enslaved, after the American Civil War became a nineteenth-century African-American politician from Virginia. Of mixed race, Morgan was born a slave in Nottoway County, Virginia, and learned to work with leather. A self-taught shoemaker and saddler, he was allowed to hire himself out. While still a farm hand and while teaching slaves to read was illegal in the commonwealth, he was known to attach a blue-backed speller to his plow and apply himself to lessons as he worked. As an adult, Morgan made enough money