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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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HISTORY OF T H E GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF T H E CAMPUS OF T H E UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS AND EARLY EXPANSION REGENT GREGORY (1867-1880) W HEN THE first Board of Trustees of the new Industrial University of Illinois met in Springfield on March 12, 1867, they found awaiting them the possibilities of a great institution. The University was richly endowed with land; its future only the boldest imagination could picture. With true pioneer spirit, the Trustees immediately set about laying plans for the development of the new undertaking which had been placed in their hands. First among the perfunctory duties was a consideration of available assets. By the terms of the Morrill Act, under which the University was founded, the University of Illinois received a grant from the Government of 480,000 acres of public lands. In addition to this vast land endowment, the citizens of Champaign County had made valuable donations to the University, conditional on its being located in Urbana. In detail, the gifts of the county were: (1) 405 acres of farm land, known as the Busey farm, immediately south of the cemetery; (2) 400 acres of farm land nine miles southeast of Urbana, known as the Griggs farm; (3) 160 acres north of the cemetery, the tract now bounded on the east by Lincoln Avenue and on the west by Fourth Street, having its north line immediately south of the Auditorium; (4) an old seminary building, on what is now Illinois Field, and its surrounding tract of 10 acres; (5) $100,000 in Champaign County bonds, and (6) $2,000 in fruit and orna1
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