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| University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri | |
| Updated: 02/2008 | |
DESCRIPTION: In 1839, the Missouri legislature passed the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university. It would be the first public university west of the Mississippi River. The year of its founding, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged $117,921 in cash and land to beat out five other central Missouri counties for the location of the state university. The land on which the University was eventually constructed was just south of Columbia's downtown and owned by James S. Rollins, who is known as the "Father of the University." It was the first public university in Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase and was designed in part upon Jefferson's original plans for the University of Virginia. Jefferson's original tombstone was given to Mizzou by his heirs in July 1883. Francis Quadrangle, featuring the Columns and Jesse Hall, prior to the movement of construction equipment into this area for the Reynolds Journalism Institute. In 1864, while in the midst of the Civil War, the board | |
| MISSION: Please visit University of Missouri Wiki for more information about the school. | |
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Headquarters: Rolla,US-MO Web Site:
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