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  2. Thomas Green Clemson - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Green Clemson. Thomas Green Clemson (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as Chargés d'Affaires to Belgium, and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He served in the Confederate Army and founded Clemson University in South Carolina. Historians have called Clemson "a quintessential ...

  3. Campus of Clemson University - Wikipedia

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    On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university. The university was founded in 1889, and three buildings from the initial construction still exist today: Hardin Hall (built in 1890), Main Building (later renamed Tillman Hall) (1894), and Godfrey Hall (1898). Other periods of ...

  4. Clemson University - Wikipedia

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    Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President. [15]

  5. Why are Clemson and Georgia playing so early? Organizer ... - AOL

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    The stadium will be using the 75,000-seat set-up for Clemson-Georgia, Stokan confirmed, adding that both schools have already sold out the 25,000 tickets they were each allotted for the contest.

  6. Normal schools in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Normal schools in the United States in the 19th century were developed and built primarily to train elementary-level teachers for the public schools. The term “normal school” is based on the French école normale, a sixteenth-century model school with model classrooms where model teaching practices were taught to teacher candidates.

  7. No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 3 Ohio State: Date, Location Is Set - AOL

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    Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame are the four teams that will compete for it all in just two weeks. Alabama and Notre Dame will square off first on January 1, 2021 at 5:00 PM ET on ESPN.

  8. List of land-grant universities - Wikipedia

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    Alabama A&M University. Auburn University (designated as a land-grant college in 1872 under the name Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) Tuskegee University (private) Though Alabama A&M is Alabama's official 1890 Morrill Act institution, the mission and unique history of Tuskegee are so similar to those of the 1890 institutions that ...

  9. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    See Battle of Fallen Timbers. [ 1] Downtown Cincinnati in 2010. The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union on March 1, 1803, as the 17th state of the United States. The recorded history of Ohio began in the late 17th century when French ...