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First freshman class at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
| Date: | 1889 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | People | Students |
Wilbur Massey, professor of agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture, member of the first faculty at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
| Date: | 1889 |
| Collection: | Living Off the Land | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Agriculturists | Massey, W. F. (Wilbur Fisk), 1839-1923 | People |
President Alexander Q. Holladay (seated center) and North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts first faculty
| Date: | 1889 |
| Collection: | Living Off the Land | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | College presidents | Holladay, Alexander Quarles, 1839-1909 | Teachers |
Leonidas L. Polk
| Date: | 1880 |
| Collection: | Living Off the Land | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Agricultural education | Teachers |
Leonidas F. Polk
| Date: | 1889 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Agricultural colleges | Agriculture | History | North Carolina |
Governor's mansion
| Date: | 1889 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Governors | Mansions |
Administration Building Holladay Hall North Carolina State College
| Date: | 1889 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Administration buildings | Buildings | Holladay Hall (Raleigh, N.C.) |
Holladay Hall at North Carolina State University 1889
| Date: | 1889 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Administration buildings | Buildings | Holladay Hall (Raleigh, N.C.) |
Administration Building Holladay Hall North Carolina State College
| Date: | 1889-10 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Administration buildings | Buildings | Holladay Hall (Raleigh, N.C.) |
Exposition Dining Hall, sponsored by T.B. Macon and Co.
| Date: | 1884 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Cafeterias | Exhibitions | Fairs | Food | Hillsborough Street (Raleigh, N.C.) |
Herbert B. Battle
| Date: | 1880 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Battle, Herbert Bemerton | People | Students |
William Alphonso Withers
| Date: | 1880 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Agricultural extension workers | Chemists | Faculty | People | Withers, William Alphonso, 1864-1924 |
William Alphonso Withers
| Date: | 1880 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Agricultural extension workers | Chemists | Faculty | People | Withers, William Alphonso, 1864-1924 |
D. H. Hill Library
| Date: | 1889 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Administration | Faculty | Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1859-1924 | Historians | Librarians |
Alfred Daniel Jones
| Date: | 1880 |
| Collection: | University Archives Photographs |
| Subjects: | Jones, Alfred Daniel | People |
Construction on Main Building (later Holladay Hall) completed
| Date: | 1889 |
| Description: | This building would later be renamed Holladay Hall, in recognition of the first President of the university, Alexander Holladay. The building was constructed of 1.5 million "penitentiary bricks" made at the State Prison in Raleigh. |
| Timelines: | Campus Buildings & Grounds | Highlights in NC State History |
Cornerstone laid for first building (Holladay Hall)
| Date: | 8/1888 |
| Description: | The cornerstone was laid for the first building on campus, originally called Main Building but later named Holladay Hall. |
| Timelines: | Campus Buildings & Grounds | Highlights in NC State History | This Month in NC State History (August) |
Funding for Agricultural Experiment Station
| Date: | 3/2/1887 |
| Description: | Under the Hatch Act, the federal government provided $15,000 to each state for agricultural experiment stations. |
| Timelines: | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | NC State's Land Grant | This Day | This Month in NC State History (March) |
Continued call for agricultural and industrial school
| Date: | 1/1887 - 2/1887 |
| Description: | Farmers' organizations in the state of North Carolina, along with the Watauga Club and Colonel Leonidas Polk, successfully lobby the North Carolina state legislature to add an agriculture school to the proposed industrial school in Raleigh. This new school would not be affiliated with the University of North Carolina, and would thus be able to acquire and use the land scrip funds being received (but not used by) the University of North Carolina. |
| Timelines: | Highlights in NC State History | NC State's Land Grant |
More calls for agricultural school
| Date: | 2/10/1886 |
| Description: | Leonidas Polk continues to call for an agricultural school in the first published issue of the Progressive Farmer. |
| Timelines: | Highlights in NC State History | NC State's Land Grant | This Day | This Month in NC State History (February) |
