| From an agricultural college to a world-class learning community, Penn State University has the most interesting history out of every college. In 1855 Centre Common, located in State College Pennsylvania, became the site of the site of the new high school in response to a two-hundred acre offer from agriculturalist and ironmaster James Irvin of Bellefone. This high school was named Farmers’ High School because the scientific principals of farming, mathematics, rhetoric, and classical languages were taught at this high school. The high school also adopted this name because its location was located in an agricultural and framing region. In 1859, the first class of students entered Farmers’ High School. Also in the 1860’s, the name of the high school was changed to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. This college shortly fell apart when Evan Pugh died. There were only sixty-four undergraduates enrolled from this college in 1875 |
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In 1874, the college changes its name again to the Pennsylvania State College. In 1882, George W. Antherton became president of the Pennsylvania State College. He soon made Penn State one of the nation’s ten largest undergraduate engineering schools. In 1830, Ralph Hetzel fashioned a series of campuses for which the students would attend. Also in 1930, Penn State launched outreach programs in liberal arts, engineering, dairy science, diesel engines, and other specialized fields. In 1953, the name of the college was changed to the Pennsylvania State University. From 1956 to 1970 hundreds of acres of farm land and forest land were added to give the central campus room to grow. Also in the 1990’s, many buildings were added to the Penn State Area including the Bryce Jordan Center which is the Penn State basketball areana. Today, Penn State has grown from an agricultural farmland to a college that enrolls thousands of students every Academic year.
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