Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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46 Sixteen Years at (he Inivcrs mots LANDS ACQUIRED IN 1867 City Property in Urban* and Champaign Item 1 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Farm Land 2 at L'rbana and Champaign Item o 3 4 5 6 7 Total Acres 53.65 21 7 80 405.12 400 966.77 Cost1 $ 5.300 2,210 1,000 6,000 28,700 24,000 $67,210 Acres 7.4 5.2 o 9 Cost o o Q .4 36.6 o .4 $40,000 5,100 300 300 150 560 300 500 7,500 750 600 Total 51.: $56,060 SUStOIAEY 1 City Property Ac<juired in 1867 Farm Property Total Property it It €€ Acres 51 2 966.77 1017.97 Cost1 $ 56.060 67,210 f 123,270 H. FROM 1868 TO 1904 During the thirty-seven years from 1868 to 1904 no large additions were made to the campus proper, and no additions were made to the acreage of the farm lands. The most important acquisition was that of nearly the entire tier of lots, 198 feet deep (from east to west), lying east of that portion of the campus which extended from Springfield Avenue to the north line of the "160 acre farm." Mathews Avenue was opened as far south as this line and thus became 'Estimated value if donated *Qf the farm land, items cumbered 3, 4 and 5 are now within the cor* porcte limits of the city of Urbana. and the north SO rods of item 2, embracing 40 acres, are within the limits of the City of Champaign.
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