03/28/1890 AD founded
Washington State College was established by the Washington Legislature, less than five months after statehood as a land-grant college created under the Morrill Act, signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862.
For the government, the stated mission of land-grant colleges was to teach practical disciplines “related to agriculture and the mechanic arts” for the nations industrial and working classes was supplemented by the Hatch Act of 1887 which called for the establishment of federally-supported agriculture experiment stations.
A second act of legislature expanded the school educational mission to include general arts and sciences. The university and the experiment station would aid enterprise by improving farm management, conducting research, and teaching the skills needed to be better farmers.[14] WSU's role as a statewide institution became clear in 1894 with the launch of its first agricultural experiment station west of the Cascade Mountains near Puyallup.
Lattitude: 46.7333° N
Longitude: 117.1666° W
Region: North America
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