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UNITED STATES 5 — VIRGINIA

which 2,365 square miles is water area. Census population on January 1, 1920, 2,309,187.

Years

Population

Years

Population

Total Per sq. mile

Total j Per sq. mile

1860 1880

1,596,318 24-6 1,512,56s 1 377 1

1900 1910

1,854,184 46-1 2,061,612 : 51*2

1 The area having been reduced hy the separation of West Virginia. In 1910 the population by sex and race was : —

-

White

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

Total

Male. Female.

704,363

635,446

830,542 340,554

443

264

1,035.348 1, <026,264

Total.

1,389;809

N 671,096

K38



539

2,001,61-:

The total population in 1910 contained 27,057 of foreign birth, of whom 3, 687 were English, 2,450 Irish, 4,228 German, 4,379 Russian, and 1,246 Scotch.

The urban population in 1910 formed 23 1 per cent, of the whole. The population, according to the Census of 1920, of the principal cities was

Cities

Population

Cities

Population! Cities

Population

Richmond. . Norfolk. . Roanoke. .

171,667

115,777

50,842

Portsmouth. Lynchburg. Petersburg

54,387 29,956 31,002

Newport News Danville. Alexandria.

35,596

21.539 18,060

The principal churches are Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Episcopal.

Elementary instruction is free, and for illiterate children compulsory between the ages of 8 and 12. No child under 12 may be employed in any mining or manufacturing work. White and coloured children must not be taught in the same school.

In 1918*-19 Virginia had 13,597 elementary schools with 13,911 teachers and 481,139 enrolled pupils ; 673 public high schools with 1,809 teachers and 29,157 pupils. In 1918-19 there were 7 public normal schools with 167 teachers and 4,288 students. Expenditure on education, 1918-19, 9,155,363 dollars. Statistics of the more important institutions for higher instruction (for men) are (1919) ; — ^^

Founded

1693 1749 1S26 1865

1872 1839 1776

Name and Place of College

William and Mary Coll., Williamsburg (State) Washington and Lee University, Lexington. University of Virginia, Charlottesville (State) Virginia Union University, Richmond (Colored ;

Sapt.) •

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hlacksburg (State) Virginia Military Institute, Lexington (State) Hampden-Sidney College, Hampden-Sidney (Pres- byterian)

Professors, etc.

Students

232

626

1243

293 566 673

89.