Old College - Newark, DE
Posted by: Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
N 39° 41.027 W 075° 45.219
18S E 435372 N 4392932
Marker giving brief history of the first building of what later became the University of Delaware.
Waymark Code: WMJTA9
Location: Delaware, United States
Date Posted: 12/28/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Team Smokey
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Old College
Erected 1833-1834

This building contained a chapel (called the oratory), class, dormitory, dining, administrative, and student society rooms.  Newark College, chartered February 5, 1833, opened its doors for instruction May 8, 1834.  Name changed to Delaware College April 4, 1843.  Willard Hall, first President of Board of Trustees; Rev. Dr. Eliphalet W. Gilbert, first President; Nathan Monroe and John Holmes Agnew, first professors, Alexander T. Gray, the first student was enrolled as a sophomore.

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