Sigma Nu - U of Montana - Missoula, MT
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N 46° 51.709 W 113° 59.744
12T E 271667 N 5194166
The Sigma Nu is on Gerald Street, amongst several other frat houses near the U of M campus.
Waymark Code: WMKJV9
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2014
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Sigma Nu Fraternity was born in October 1868 at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia by a Confederate veteran from Arkansas named James Frank Hopkins and two friends, Greenfield Quarles, from Arkansas, a Kentuckian by birth, and James McIlvaine Riley from St. Louis, Missouri.
By 1870, after the graduation of the Founders, Sigma Nu began to expand, first to the University of Virginia, then to North Georgia Agricultural College in 1881. Gamma Chi was chartered at the University of Washington in 1895. For almost four years Sigma Nu was the only college fraternity in the Northwest, having been the first to establish a chapter not only in the State of Washington, but also Montana and Oregon.
This, the Gamma Phi Chapter, was founded on December 30, 1904 with seven charter members. They are currently housed in a large and relatively new (for this neighbourhood) brick building surrounded by heritage houses. Their philanthropic endeavours include the Boy's and Girl's Club and the Great Strides Walk.