Washington and Lee University, Lexington

Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia. Established in 1749 as the Augusta Academy, the university is among the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States. Washington and Lee's 325-acre campus sits at the edge of Lexington and abuts the campus of the Virginia Military Institute in the Shenandoah Valley region between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains. The campus is approximately 50 miles northeast from Roanoke, 140 miles west from the state capital of Richmond, and 180 miles inland southwest from the national capital at Washington, D.C. ()