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Lawmakers rename the Agricultural College of West Virginia as West Virginia University on December 4, 1868, to represent a broader range of higher education.
The University is built on the grounds of three former academies, the Monongalia Academy of 1814, the Morgantown Female Academy of 1831, and Woodburn Female Seminary of 1858.
The West Virginia Legislature had created the Agricultural College of West Virginia on February 7, 1867, under the terms of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, and the school officially had opened on September 2 of the same year.