06/24/1794 AD founded
Bowdoin College was originally chartered by the Massachusetts State Legislature when Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was later redirected under the jurisdiction of the Maine Legislature.
It was named for former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, whose son James Bowdoin III was an early benefactor.[
Bowdoin began to develop in the 1820s, a decade in which Maine became an independent state as a result of the Missouri Compromise and graduated U.S. President Franklin Pierces. The college also graduated two literary philosophers, the writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both of whom graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1825. Pierce and Hawthorne began an official militia company called the 'Bowdoin Cadets'.
Lattitude: 43.9108° N
Longitude: 69.963° W
Region: North America
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