HAMPTON — Virginia Peninsula Community College is renaming Griffin and Wythe halls, which are connected and function as one building, to Kecoughtan Hall.
Virginia Peninsula Community College's Griffin and Wythe halls, which are connected and function as one building, will be renamed Kecoughtan Hall. The new name acknowledges and honors the Kecoughtan tribe, the early settlers of the land where the college’s Hampton campus is located.
Virginia Peninsula Community College has notified students it will change the name of two halls to honor a local Native American tribe that once owned the land where the school is located.
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