Hokie Stone is limestone infused with magnesium and calcium under intense pressure and temperature. Hokie Stone … See more

Eighty percent of the stone is quarried from a 40-acre (160,000 m ) Virginia Tech-owned quarry a few miles from campus near the Highland Park subdivision of Blacksburg, Virginia. Twenty-five to thirty Virginia Tech employees … See more

The native woodland Indians are believed to have made tools from Hokie Stone.
When the university was founded in 1872, buildings built in the Old Quad (now known as the Upper Quad) were red brick structures, … See more

• The saw that cuts Hokie Stone down to manageable sizes.
• The breaker that breaks Hokie Stone to sizes that can be easily handled.
• Hokie Stone surface detail view, with gargoyle. … See more

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Virginia Tech.
• Collegiate Gothic in North America
• Limestone buildings… See more

• Virginia Tech Board of Visitors: Resolution on Hokie Stone — "Attachment H" to minutes of 2010 meeting. See more