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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.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore was founded in 1807 as the Maryland College of Medicine. In 1812, it was rechartered as the University of Maryland and given the authority to establish additional faculties in law, divinity, and arts and sciences. The faculty of law was founded in 1816, though it operated intermittently until 1868.
Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), a future U.S. Representative (Congressman) and descendant of the first Lord Baltimore, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Mansion estate nearby today's College Park, Maryland. [16] Later that year, Calvert founded the school and was the acting president from 1859 to 1860. [17]
After the Spanish colonial era the Presidio of Sonoma in Sonoma, California was founded in 1834. [39] Founded by Vicente Francisco de Sarría in 1817, Mission San Rafael Arcángel, was the last mission founded during the Spanish period. To support the presidios and the missions, half a dozen towns (called pueblos) were established in California.
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Riverside Polytechnic High School is founded in Riverside, California. Occidental College is founded in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock. Whittier College, the first Quaker college on the west coast, is founded in Whittier. Pomona College, the founding institution of the Claremont Consortium, is founded in Pomona. It moved to ...
California was part of New Spain until that kingdom dissolved in 1821, becoming part of Mexico until the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), when it was ceded to the United States under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The same year, the California gold rush began, triggering intensified U.S. westward expansion.
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.