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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Land 45 tract already owned by the University. Among the lots purchased at this time were those lying between the Institute grounds and Springfield Avenue.8 So much of White and Stoughton Streets as crossed this portion of the campus was vacated by the city of Urbana, as also were the alleys running thru blocks 52 and 53, in accordance with a special Act of the General Assembly.9 The city of Urbana was permitted however, to extend Green Street across the campus.10 By the end of the year 1867, therefore, the University property extended continuously—except as it was crossed by Springfield Avenue, and by Green Street—from University Avenue to the south line of the 160 acre farm. 11 South of this farm was the Mount Hope Cemetery, and beyond the cemetery was the so-called South Farm of the University, comprising 410 acres. The 400 acre tract, known as the Griggs farm, was a mile east of the South Farm. The total amount of land possessed by the University at this time amounted to about 1017.97 acres,12 and was valued at approximately $123,270. The accompanying map of the University grounds, reprinted from the University Trustees' Eeport for 1870-71,13 p. 17, shows the grounds practically as they were at the end of the first year of the University's existence—only three additional lots having been purchased between the years 1867 and 1871. The Griggs farm of 400 acres does not appear upon the map. The detailed legal description of the lands acquired by the University at various times will be found at the end of this chapter. The following is a summary of the lands acquired during the year 1867. The figures in the column headed " I t e m " refer to the legal description of the property at the end of the chapter. Rept. Univ. of III., 1868, pp. 117-19 •Kept. Univ. of HI., 1868, p. 138; Private Laws of 111., 1869, Vol. I I , p. 300 "Kept. Univ. of 111., 1868, pp. 138-42 ^Comptroller's Kept., Univ. of HI., Sept. 22, 1913, pp. 86-7 "Cf. Eept., Univ. of 111., 1870-71, pp. 16-18 "Ibid 8
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