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The private school was founded as the Chaffey College of Agriculture through the University of Southern California; [3] USC, also a private university, had been founded three years earlier in nearby Los Angeles. The cornerstone of the new school was laid on March 17, 1883, at Fourth and Euclid in Ontario; it opened on October 15, 1885.
Chaffey College of Agriculture, 1885. The Chaffey College of Agriculture, founded by the Ontario founders George and William Chaffey, opened on October 15, 1885.The institution, which also had a secondary school, was operated by the University of Southern California until 1901, when it came under the control of the local community and was renamed Ontario High School.
Ontario High School was built on 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of land on the south side of Ontario, California.The campus has eight permanent classroom buildings, along with 34 portable classrooms, for a total of 110 separate classrooms, an auditorium, cafeteria and multi-purpose room, library, study room, gym, locker room facilities, two pools, and fine arts and vocational facilities.
USC ran the Chaffey College of Agriculture until financial troubles closed the school in 1901. In 1906, the school was reopened by the municipal and regional government and thus officially separated from USC. Renamed as Chaffey College, it now exists as a community college as part of the California Community College System.
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Ironically, the university abandoned the agricultural school while Chaffey was away in Australia, so he pursued litigation and eventually won. [10] In 1901 control of the secondary school was given to the local community and it was named Ontario High School, only to be renamed Chaffey High School in 1911.
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