6 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY.
one of the colleges of Kentucky University, then recently united with Transylvania Uni-
versity and located at Lexington, citizens of Lexington and its vicinity donating $110,000 to
the curators of the University to buy a site for the College. The General Assembly having
authorized the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to sell the 330,000 acres apportioned to
Kentucky, by the mismanagement of the Commissioners’ agent the State realized for its
land only $165,000. V
1866. The College opened with a President, four Professors, and a Commandant.
1878. Dissatisfied with the management of the College by the Curators, who were en- ~
gaged in a long factional strife, the General Assembly severed the connection with the Uni-
versity, and appointed a Commission to re~locate the College, to provide for its continuance
in operation till re—l0cated, and to prepare "a plan for a first·class University.” Kentucky
University claiming and retaining the former site of the College, the sole property left the
latter after the severance was an income of 89,900 derived from the land grant.
1880. The city of Lexington offering the City Park of tifty—two acres as a new site for .
the College, and also $30,000 in bonds, and the county of Fayette offering $20,000 besides,
the General Assembly ratified the selection of a site made by a majority of the commission,
and located the College permanently in Lexington.
1880. To provide teachers for the Common Schools of the State and for other schools,
the General Assembly added to the College a Normal Department, which should admit,
besides other students, one from each representative district every year free of tuition.
1880. Further to endow the College and to enable it to purchase apparatus, machinery,
implements, and a library; to maintain the Normal Department, and to defray other neces-
sary expenses, the General Assembly imposed a tax of one-half cent on each hundred dollars
of the assessed value of all property in the State liable to taxation for State revenue and
belonging to its white inhabitants.
1880. The Classical and Normal Department and the Academy added.
1882. The College Building, the First Dormitory, and the President’s House completed.
1885. The Commandant’s House reconstructed.
1887. To enlarge by experiments and to diffuse the knowledge of agriculture, an act
of Congress established, under tl1e direction of the Agricultural and Mechanical College in
each State, an Agricultural Experiment Station, appropriating for its support $15,000 per
annum.
l 1887. The Department of Civil Engineering established, an experimental farm of
forty-eight acres purchased, and the College greenhouse built.
:889. The Experiment Station Building completed.
1890. The Second Dormitory completed.
1890. For " the more complete endowment " of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges,
an act of Congress appropriated to each State $l5,000 for the year ending june 30, 1890, and
the same sum with an increase of $1,000 per annum for ten years, after which the maximum
of $25,000 should continue without change. Of tl1e amount thus annually appropriated, the
College receives 85 per cent and the school of the colored people at Frankfort I5 per cent.
1891. The Department of Mechanical Engineering established.
1892. The Mechanical Building and Workshops completed.
1894. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station built.
1895. The Annex to the Mechanical Building and the lnsectarium for the Station built.
1897. The Department of Electrical Engineering established. Additions made to the `
Greenhouses a11d lnsectarium.
1898. The building for Natural Science completed.
1898. Sixty»t`our and a half acres added tothe Experimental Farm. making II3 in all.
1900. Sixty thousand dollars appropriated by the General Assembly for a Collegiate
Home for Young Women, for a Gymnasium and Drill Room, and a Hall for the Y. M. C. A.
1901. Ninety acres added to the Experimental Farm, making 203 in all. The build-
ing erected containing the Gynmasium, the Drill Room, and Halls for the Societies and
the Y. M. C. A.
1901. The Department of Mining Engineering established.