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Chaffey College of Agriculture, 1885. The school was established in Ontario, California , in 1883, when city founders and brothers George and William Chaffey donated land and established an endowment for a private college .
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.
In 1882, founders of the City of Ontario George and William Chaffey established the Chaffey College of Agriculture and an on-campus secondary school with assistance from the University of Southern California (USC). The local community was granted control of the secondary school in 1901 and named it Ontario High School.
Chaffey College was founded in 1883 in the city of Ontario, California, as an agricultural college branch campus of USC under the name of Chaffey College of Agriculture of the University of Southern California. USC ran the Chaffey College of Agriculture until financial troubles closed the school in 1901.
The union high school district began in 1882 when George and William Chaffey, the founders of Ontario, began the Chaffey College of Agriculture and an on-campus secondary school with assistance from the University of Southern California.
George Chaffey (28 January 1848 – 1 March 1932) was a Canadian engineer, inventor and entrepreneur who with his brother William developed large parts of Southern California, including what became the community of Etiwanda and the cities of Ontario, and Upland.
In 1901, the original college closed, and a new Ontario High School replaced it. This soon became Chaffey College, and offered college courses as well as high school education. Ontario was declared a "model colony" by an act of Congress in 1903. [39] North Ontario broke away from the city in 1906, calling itself Upland. [29]
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