#OTD 167 years ago the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the pioneer land-grant institution that grew to become Michigan State University, was founded. Here is a thread regarding the seeds of knowledge sown by the Michigan Agricultural College. #MSUHistory 🧵 Michigan Governor Fred Warner, in his speech at the 1907 Semi-Centennial celebration of the Michigan Agricultural College, said: "You come then today, my friends, to the pioneer agricultural college of the United States, an institution which has blazed the way..."

This week I learned the MSU-owned land that is the site of the WKAR-TV transmitter antenna was originally purchased by the State of Michigan about a hundred years ago to be the location for a model women's prison. A (tangential) #MSUHistory thread. @MSUArchives 1/ Officially called (in a mix of optimism and euphemism) the "Michigan State Training School for Women," and colloquially as "Cedar Banks" for its riverside location, it was founded by state law in 1917. (Despite the apparent similarity in name, no direct relation to MSU.) 2/