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Named after Queen Anne's County, Maryland. [96] Somerset Hall 1949 Named after Somerset County, Maryland. [97] St. Mary's Hall 1932 Named after St. Mary's County, Maryland. Originally named Margaret Brent Hall. In 1954 the name was changed to St. Mary's Hall. [98] Talbot Hall 1948 Named after Talbot County, Maryland. [99] Washington Hall 1940
The University of Maryland campus in 1938. During Phillips Lee Goldsborough's tenure as Governor of Maryland, the state purchased Maryland Agricultural College, taking control of the school in 1916 and renaming it Maryland State College. [20]
On March 6, 1856, the forerunner of today's University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a slaveowner, descendant of the Barons Baltimore, fervent believer in agricultural education, and a future U.S. Congressman, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Plantation in College Park for $21,000.
Morrill Hall is the oldest continuously-used academic building on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.Built in 1898 in the Second Empire architectural style for $24,000, [2] it was the sole academic building left untouched by The Great Fire of 1912 which devastated almost all of campus.
Dent County is a county in Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,421. [1] The largest city and county seat is Salem. [2] The county was officially organized on February 10, 1851, and is named after state representative Lewis Dent, a pioneer settler who arrived in Missouri from Virginia in 1835.
From 1907 to 1920, St. John's College in Annapolis functioned as the University of Maryland's faculty of arts and sciences; this loose federation was dissolved in 1920 when the Maryland State College, (the former Maryland Agricultural College), founded 1856, as the state's land grant college, became part of a larger University of Maryland with ...
The written history of College Park, Maryland begins with the early Europeans that settled in the area since the 18th century. After the predecessor of the University of Maryland, the Maryland Agricultural College, was chartered in 1856, a series of neighborhoods developed in the area, also influenced by the deployment of a streetcar along what is now Rhode Island Avenue.
Former Maryland State Delegate for District 28 and former Secretary of the Maryland State Police: Vivek Kundra: 2001 (MS) First Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States [55] David Mitchell: Current University of Maryland, College Park chief of police and former Secretary of the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security [56]