Cormack Field House

Cormack Field House or "The Pit" is the track and field facility for the Virginia Military Institute Keydets, located in Lexington, Virginia. It was VMI's home for basketball until 1981, when Cameron Hall was completed as the new VMI basketball arena.

Type: Sports location
Description: military sports facility in Lexington, Virginia
Address: VA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Alumni Memorial Field and Stono.

Alumni Memorial Field

Pitch

Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0.

Alumni Memorial Field at Foster Stadium is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Lexington, Virginia, United States. It opened in 1962. It is home to the Virginia Military Institute Keydets football team. Alumni Memorial Field is situated 1,000 feet west of Cormack Field House.

Stono

University building

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Stono, also known as Jordan's Point, is a historic home located at Lexington, Virginia. It was built about 1818, and is a cruciform shaped brick dwelling consisting of a two-story, three-bay, central section with one-story, two-bay, flanking wings. Stono is situated 470 feet north of Cormack Field House.

Jordan’s Point Historic District

Park

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

The Jordan's Point Historic District encompasses a collection of historic industrial resources at Jordan's Point Park in Lexington, Virginia. The area, long a major local crossing point of the Maury River, was developed about 1800 by John Jordan and John Moorhead, who established a sawmill on the site. Jordan’s Point Historic District is situated 1,300 feet north of Cormack Field House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lexington and Mechanicsville.

Lexington

Town

Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lexington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 7,320. It is the county seat of Rockbridge County, although the two are separate jurisdictions, and is combined with it for statistical purposes by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Mechanicsville

Locality

Mechanicsville is an unincorporated community in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States. Mechanicsville is 3 miles southwest of Buena Vista. Mechanicsville is situated 5 miles south of Cormack Field House.

Buena Vista

Town

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Buena Vista, called "BV" by locals, is an independent city located in the Blue Ridge Mountains region of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,641. Buena Vista is situated 6 miles southeast of Cormack Field House.

Cormack Field House

Categories: arena, building, and university building
Location: Lexington, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.78914° or 37° 47′ 21″ north

Longitude

-79.4314° or 79° 25′ 53″ west

Elevation

955 feet (291 metres)

Operator

Virginia Military Institute

Open location code

8792QHQ9+MC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 248882331

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=wrestling

GeoNames ID

4754115

Wikidata ID

Q5170973

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