Pennsylvania State University is founded, as the…

February 1855 CE

Pennsylvania State University is founded, as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, on February 22. 1855.

Centre County, Pennsylvania, becomes the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, donates two hundred acres (0.8 square kilometers) of land – the first of 10,101 acres (forty-one square kilometers) the school would eventually acquire.

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