1889
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1889 in Clemson History
Events that occurred in 1889:
- The South Carolina general assembly, amidst bitter conflict, votes to accept Thomas Green Clemson's bequest of his Fort Hill property and lands to establish an agricultural college and land-grant school. The result is the founding of Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina.
- (The ONLY official names Clemson has ever had are: Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina and Clemson University.)
- Henry Aubrey Strode closes Kenmore University High School, a prepatory school for the University of Virginia, in Amherst county, Virginia, to become head of the mathematics department at the University of Mississippi.
- March 9: The Minutes of the Board of Trustees state that at a meeting of the Board on March 9, 1889 it was resolved "that the main building shall be known and called the Agricultural Building." Evidently it was so designated for the next three or four years. (Unpublished files of J.C. Littlejohn, Box 69, Special Collections, Strom Thurmond Institute).
- The Trustee House is completed with funds from the fertilizer tax, the first building erected on the new campus.
- The first intercollegiate football game in the state of South Carolina is played between Wofford and Furman. The Methodists win, five goals to one. (Lander, Jr., Ernest McPherson "Whitey", "A History of South Carolina", The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1960, page 147.)
- John Heisman concludes third of three years as a player at Brown University.
| 1888 | The 1880's | 1890 |
