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The College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences (CAFLS) supports Clemson University's land-grant mission to provide education, research, and service to the public. CAFLS faculty members teach major subjects and core curricula while preparing students to be leaders, creative thinkers, and communicators.
Walter Merritt Riggs, President of Clemson Agricultural College, 1910–24; professor of mechanical engineering and athletic coach, 1896–1909 Riggs Hall was built to replace Mechanical Hall, which burned in 1926. It was designed by Architecture department chairman Rudolph E. Lee.
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 ...
Clemson was founded as Clemson Agricultural College, a military school, in November 1889 and has had more than 10,000 students and alumni who have served in the armed forces. That heritage is ...
Clemson University was founded in 1889 by Thomas Green Clemson in the upstate region of South Carolina. Clemson was a Philadelphia-born musician, artist, agriculturist, American diplomat and ...
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Clemson University; South Carolina State University (Founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina. It still has the 1890 land-grant legacy of service to the citizenry of the state.)
In his 1888 will, Clemson bequeathed more than 814 acres (329 ha) of the Fort Hill estate to the State of South Carolina for an agricultural college with a stipulation that the dwelling house "shall never be torn down or altered; but shall be kept in repair with all articles of furniture and vesture...and shall always be open for inspection of ...