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Lyndon Institute opened in 1867 as the Lyndon Literary and Biblical Institution by the Free Will Baptists. [3] Its first academic term was in 1870. The campus served as home to the Lyndon Commercial College from 1886 and in 1910, Theodore Newton Vail, the first president of New England Telephone Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company founded the Vermont School of Agriculture ...
Lyndon Center is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Lyndon, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. The community is located along the western border of Lyndonville. Lyndon Center has a post office with ZIP code 05850. [2] [3] The community was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [1]
Lyndon State College was a public liberal arts college in Lyndon, Vermont. In 2018, it merged with Johnson State College to create Northern Vermont University ; the former campus of Lyndon State College is now the university's Lyndon campus.
Lyndon is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,491. [3] Lyndon is the home of Lyndon State College.The town contains five unincorporated villages, Lyndonville just east of the geographic center of town, Lyndon Corner in the south, Lyndon Center in the center of town on the west side of Lyndonville, Little Egypt in the north, and East ...
William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), American jurist, statesman and educator. Both the college and the town are named for him. Painted by Gilbert Stuart.. The town of Johnson, and a part of neighboring Cambridge, Vermont together once made up the King's College Tract, a land grant chartered by King George III in 1774 for the eventual expansion of King's College in New York, today's Columbia ...
The Samuel Read Hall Library [1] is the library at Lyndon State College, [2] a member of the Vermont State College [3] system. The library is named for Samuel Read Hall, an educational pioneer and native Vermonter and is located in the Library Academic Center on the college's campus in Lyndon Center.
The SHAPE Center is Lyndon's fitness center, containing multiple fitness-related rooms. [21] The George W. Stannard Gymnasium is the primary gymnasium for sporting events, with a seating capacity of 1,500. [22] The smaller Rita L. Bole Gymnasium is primarily used for intramural athletics and exercise science classes, as it has no permanent ...
Castleton University was chartered as a grammar school in 1787, making it the oldest institution dissolved to create Vermont State University. [6] Johnson Academy was founded in 1828, later becoming Johnson State College; Vermont Technical College was founded in 1806 as Orange County Grammar School; Lyndon State College was founded in 1911 as a normal school.