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Clemson University is a public land-grant research university near Clemson, South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Founded in 1889, it was originally an agricultural college and is now classified as a very high research activity institution.
Clemson is a city adjacent to Clemson University, a public university founded in 1889 on the former Fort Hill Plantation. Clemson is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and on the shores of Lake Hartwell.
Fort Hill is a Greek revival house built in 1803 and once owned by John C. Calhoun, the 7th Vice President of the United States. It is now a museum and library on the Clemson University campus, and a National Historic Landmark and a National Register of Historic Places site.
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 nineteenth-century ...
The campus of Clemson University is located in unincorporated Pickens County, South Carolina, adjacent to Clemson. It was founded in 1889 on the site of a former plantation and has several historic buildings and districts.
Learn about the history, architecture and grounds of the building that houses the state government of South Carolina. See photos, maps and monuments of the Classical Revival style State House and its surroundings.
Hanover House was built by Paul de St. Julien, an ethnic French Huguenot, on land by the Cooper River that was a 1688 grant to his grandfather by the Lords Proprietors of South Carolina. His grandfather had sought refuge in the colony from religious persecution by Catholics in France. The house is a 1½-story cypress wood house with a gambrel ...
One of the main points of the committee was to spread the word that the college was to be built in the legacy of her father, John C. Calhoun, who did much for the state of South Carolina. In honor of his wife, Thomas Green Clemson founded Clemson Agricultural College 1889 and opened in July 1893, with a student body of 446 men.