Essays on the people, buildings, and events in the conjoined histories of East Lansing and Michigan State University, with a particular interest in the Michigan Agricultural College era (1855–1925), and a timeline of significant events.
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John C. Holmes and the Founding of M.A.C.
He is little known today except as the namesake of an east campus residence hall, but as President T. C. Abbot once wrote, “To no one man is the College so much indebted as to John Clough Holmes.” As secretary of the State Agricultural Society, Holmes led the charge to create the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan—now Michigan State University. Read more.