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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.
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]
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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.
The headquarters for UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland near the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Until late 2000, the UMGC headquarters was listed in College Park, Maryland. In an attempt to establish its own identity as an independent university, UMGC changed its postal address to Adelphi, an unincorporated community that ...
January 30 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California. February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party. These California bound emigrants became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, and some have resorted to cannibalism to survive.
The University of Maryland (UMD) College of Information is a teaching and research college located just outside of Washington, DC on the UMD College Park campus in the state of Maryland, USA. The UMD College of Information, also known as the INFO College, offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree and certificate programs.
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