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History Beginnings Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President.
The Campus of Clemson University was originally the site of U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun 's plantation, named Fort Hill. The plantation passed to his daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, Thomas Green Clemson. On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university.
C. Bradley Thompson is an American writer who is the BB&T Research Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He received his Ph.D. at Brown University where he studied under Gordon S. Wood. He was also a visiting scholar at Princeton and Harvard universities ...
History, Social science. Orville Vernon Burton is a professor of history at Clemson University, the director of its Clemson CyberInstitute, and an author. [1] He formerly served as director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS) and professor of history and sociology at the University of Illinois. [2]
Dr. Richard Yeargin III, left, hugs Woodrow Dantzler III, during an ceremony to honor EmpowerTeen campers and staff at the Anderson County Main Library in Anderson, S.C. Friday, June 28, 2024 ...
Added to NRHP. January 4, 1990. The Clemson University Historic District II is a collection of historic properties on the campus of Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The district contains 7 contributing properties located in the central portion of the campus. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The Clemson University Historic District I is a collection of historic properties on the campus of Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The district contains eight contributing properties located along the northern portion of the campus. Included are some of the oldest academic buildings on campus. [2]
Died. June 28, 2006. (2006-06-28) (aged 87) Greenville, South Carolina. Alma mater. Clemson College (B.S., 1939) Walter Thompson Cox Jr. (September 19, 1918 – June 28, 2006) was an American university administrator and coach who served as the 10th President of Clemson University .