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6 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. I
DEVELOPMENT. §”'
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· 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   kv
Representatives in Congress, 30,000 acres of the public land. "
1865. The General Assembly of Kentucky having accepted the State‘s portion under ‘
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 Cvmmissioners of the Sinking Fund to sell the 330,000 acres apportioned to ,
Kentucky, by the mismanagement of the C0mmissioners’ 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 tl1e management of the College by the Curators, who were l
engaged in a long factional strife, the General Assembly severed the connection with the
University, and appointed a commission to re-locate the College, to provide for its continu· ·
ance in operation till re-located, and to prepare " a plan for a first-class University." Ken-
tucky University claiming and retaining the former site of the College, the sole property of  
the latter after the severance was an income of $9,900 derived from the land grant. ’
1880. The City of Lexington offering the City Park of fifty-two acres as a new site for
the College, and also 7530,000 in bonds, and the County of Fayette offering $20,000 besides,
the General Assembly ratified the selection of the site made by a majority of the commis-
sion, 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 dol-  
lars of the assessed value of all property in the State liable to taxation for State revenue 4 .
and belonging to its white inhabitants.
1880. The Classical and Normal Departments, andthe Academy added.
1882. The College Building, the FirstDormitory, 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 the direction of the Agricultural and Mechanical College in
. each State, an Agricultural Experiment Station, appropriating for its support $15,000 pei- ,
annum.
1887. The Department of Civil Engineering established, an experimental farm ni
forty—eight acres purchased, and the College greenhouse built.
1889. The Experiment Station Building completed.
1890. The Second Dormitory completed.
1890. For " the more con1plete endowment" of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
an act of Congress appropriated to each State $15,000 for the year ending june 30, 1890, and , '
tbe same sum with an increase of 51,000 per annum for ten years, after which the maximum
of 5.25,000 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 15 per cent.
1891. The Department of Mechanical Engineering established.
1892. The Mechanical Building and \¢Vorkshops completed. 7
1894. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station built.
1895. The Annex to the Mechanical Building and the Insectarium for the Station built.
IR97. The Department of Electrical Engineering established. Additions made to the
Greenhouses and lnsectarium.
1898. The building for Natural Science completed.
K 1808. 5ix y—fo r  a d a half acres  ded to the xpcrimcllial Fi11'¤1, making 113l¤ fill; a ____ i t- »_‘v _ Lgmp  .