Carroll College - Waukesha, WI
N 43° 00.192 W 088° 13.625
16T E 399987 N 4761900
This marker is located on the Carroll College campus at the corner of N East Ave and College Ave in Waukesha, WI.
Waymark Code: WM52EQ
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2008
Views: 22
The marker reads:
"CARROLL COLLEGE
Carroll College, chartered by the Territorial Legislature on January 31, 1846, is Wisconsin's oldest college. Named for Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, it advanced the work of Prairieville Academy, founded in 1841 in Prairieville, the town soon to be called Waukesha.
Carroll College opened on September 8, 1846 with an enrollment of five men and a faculty of two. Of the latter, Professor Eleazur Root subsequently became Wisconsin's first Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Professor John W. Sterling served as Vice President of the University of Wisconsin from 1869 to 1885. The college became affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in 1852. On land donated by Morris D. Cutler and Charles R. Dakin, both of Waukesha, a two-story stone college building was erected in 1853.
Under presidents John Adams Savage (1850-1863) and Walter Lowry Rankin (1866-1871, 1893-1903) the college grew and became firmly established as Wisconsin's Pioneer College.
Erected 1972"
County: Waukesha
Location: Building
MarkerID: 185
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