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''New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts'' ('''''NHC''''') was founded and incoporated in 1866, as a Land Grant College in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College . In 1893, ''NHC'' moved to Durham , where it became the ''' University Of New Hampshire ''' (UNH) in 1923, by an act of the New Hampshire General Court . HISTORY Durham resident Benjamin Thompson left his farm and assets to the state for the establishment an agricultural college. On January 30 , 1890 , Benjamin Thompson died and his will became public. On March 5 , 1891 , Gov. Hiram Americus Tuttle signed an act accepting the conditions of Thompson's will. On April 10 , 1891 , Gov. Tuttle signed a Bill authorizing the college's move to Durham, New Hampshire . Excited about the pending move to Durham, the Class of 1892 held commencement exercises in an unfinished barn on the Durham campus. On April 18 , 1892 , the Board of Trustees voted to "authorize the faculty to make all the arrangements for the packing and removal of college property at Hanover to Durham." In fall of 1893 , classes began in Durham with 51 Freshmen and 13 upperclassmen, and graduate study was established. In 1923 , Gov. Fred Herbert Brown signed a bill changing the name of the college to "University of New Hampshire", despite pressure by state agriculture interests that had defeated a similar proposal in 1911 . EXTERNAL LINKS References |
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