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1839
University of Missouri Established
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In 1839, 900 citizens of Boone County pledged $117,921 in cash and land to win the bid to locate the new state university in Columbia. The University of Missouri was founded as the first publicly supported institution of higher education established in the Louisiana Territory.
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An 1891 sketch of Academic Hall, the first building on the University of Missouri campus.
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