Found 12 events matching "acres of corn"

The NC State Endowment Board of Trustees purchased a 2.5 acre parcel of land from UNC-Greensboro.

Ira O. Schaub became the first director of the Corn Club work, which eventually grew into a 4-H program.

An additional 75 acres was purchased by the NC State Endowment fund from the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh for $7.5 million. Other small purchases and land trades eventually raise the total to 1,000 acres.

The NC State Endowment Board of Trustees purchased 2.1 acres of land from Eastman Development.

The NC State Endowment Board of Trustees purchased 75 acres of land from the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh.

Land totaling 118.9 acres was exchanged with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and reallocated by the Council of State.

Located in Buncombe County, this camp was originally twelve agriculturally marginal acres that were part of the Swannanoa Branch Station.

Richard Stanhope Pullen gifted the original 62 acres of land to the state government “for the establishment and conduct of a College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts."

College officials signed the first memorandum of understanding for cooperative demonstration work with the USDA. The memorandum provided for the establishment of the Farmers' Boys' Clubs or Corn Clubs. These clubs are the forerunners of the 4-H program.

Pullen Hall was named for Richard Stanhope Pullen, who gave the original 62 acres of land to the university. Old Pullen Hall burned down in 1965.

The state of North Carolina transferred Spring Hill House (ca. 1820) and approximately 130 acres from Dorothea Dix Hospital to NC State. In February 2001, the Board of Trustees approved the addition of the Spring Hill District, or Precinct, to Centennial Campus. The Japan Center moved into Spring Hill House in June 2001.