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In the meantime, Hampton has been lining up support from local health providers and complet ing a contract with Armada Hoffler to build the facility. The private, historically black school plans a groundbreaking ceremony Monday, with construction set to start in August.
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Brevet Brigadier General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, then chief of the local Freedmen's Bureau, founded Hampton in 1868 to serve the growing community of freed people who had gathered in the Hampton area during and after the Civil War. Armstrong modeled Hampton after the Hilo Manual Labor School in Hawaii where his father served as Hawaiian minister of education. The school was chartered as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1870. Booker T. Washington, class of 1875, is Hampton's most famous graduate.
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"I wanted all Hampton students to have an appreciation of the role of technology in the global economy," says Dr. William Harvey, the college President. The school is calling its innovation an "ATM " (Academic Technology Mall.)
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With so many potential leaders on one campus, Jermayne Chapman felt compelled to pray for Hampton in the fall of 2004. The missionary living in Orlando, Fla., had even asked his co-workers to join with him in praying for the school, which boasts impressive alumni such as Booker T. Washington, a historical African-American leader and a confidant of presidents in the late 1800s.
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