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6 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY.
· DEVELOPEMENT.
V The growth of the College from year to year is shown as follows:
` 1862. To establish and endow a college, chiefly for instruction in agriculture and the
mechanic arts, an act of Congress apportioned to each State, for each of its Senators and
Representatives in Congress, 30,000 acres of the public land.
1865. The General Assembly of Kentucky having accepted the State‘s portion under P
the conditions prescribed, established the Agricultural and Mechanical College, making it
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
1866. The College opened with a President, four Professors, and a Commandant.
1878. Dissatisfied with the management ofthe 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-located, and to prepare "a plan for a tirst—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 39,900 derived from the land grant.
1880. The City of Lexington offering the City Park of tifty-two acres as anew 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 ofthe 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 tl1e College and to enable itto purchase apparatus, machinery,
implements, and zi library; to maintain the Normal Department, and to defray other neces-
sary expenses, the General Assembly imposed a tax of one-halfcent 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 Departments, and the Academy added.
1882. The College Building, the First Dormitory, and the Presidents house completed.
1885. The Con1n1andant’s House reconstructed.
1887. To enlarge by experiments and to diffuse the knowledge of agriculture, an act
of Congress established, under the direction of the Agricultural and Mechanical College in
each State, an Agricultural Experiment Station, appropriating for its support 515,000 per
annum.
1887. The Department of Civil Engineering established, an experimental farm of "`
forty—eight acres purchased, and the college greenhouse built.
IBSQ. The Experin1entStation Building completed.
1890. The Second Dormitory completed.
_ 1890. For "the more complete endowment" of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges, rg
an act of Congress appropriated to each State 515,000 for the year ending june 30,1890, and
the same sum with an increase of .%],000 per annum for ten years, after which the maximum
of $25,000 should continue without change. Of the 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.
189.;. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station built.
1895. The Annex to the Mechanical Building and the Insectarium for the Station built,
1897. 'l`he Department of Electrical Engineering established. Additions made to tl1e
Greenhouses and lnsectarium.
1898. The building for Natural Science completed.