Bridgewater College

Rockingham County · dedicated 2016 · Rtes. 613 and 752, at Spring Creek

Bridgewater College traces its origins to 1880, when Daniel C. Flory established the coeducational Spring Creek Normal School near this site. The school moved to the town of Bridgewater, about four miles east of here, in 1882, and became known as Bridgewater College after receiving a charter from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1889. The core of its historic campus, constructed between 1890 and 1910, is included in the Bridgewater Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The private liberal arts college is affiliated with the Church of the Brethren.

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