Campus History

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This collection contains archival materials describing the history of the University of Minnesota Duluth campus, including its former iterations as the State Normal School at Duluth and the Duluth State Teachers College. These items are primarily written about events and circumstances of the past, rather than about contemporaneous events.

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Duluth State Teachers College: History of School…
(1939)
Assembly on History of D.S.T.C. and Recognition of President Bohannon
(1937-12-20)
The Origin; Local Interest; Legislative Interest and Action (April 26, 1895-June 20, 1922)
(1940)
The Beginnings of the Duluth State Normal School
(1952) McConnaughey, David A
A Brief History of the Nortondale Tract
(2022-08-08) Stinnett, Seanna R
The University of Minnesota Duluth is primarily situated on a campus that covers more than 160 acres of land in Duluth which was ceded by the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and Minnesota in the Treaty of 1854. This land was part of the traditional and ancestral territory of the Ojibwe people and before them, the Dakota and Northern Cheyenne peoples. The ceded land was surveyed by the General Land Office in 1956-7 and then issued as scrip to veterans and as patents to the general public. UMD’s main campus was assembled in several chunks, the two largest acquisitions being the 1947 acquisition of nearly-160 acres of a plot called the Nortondale Tract, and the other being the donation of what would become part of the Bagley Nature Area on the northwestern corner of the campus. Both areas came largely from the acquisition of tax delinquent land by wealthy donors to UMD. The 160-acre Nortondale Tract was purchased by the Norton brothers of Kentucky in the 1870s for a planned real estate development. In the 1890s, the brothers passed away and their estates created the Northern Realty & Investment Co. which managed the Nortondale Tract for them. The land sat undeveloped by settlers, though some Native families lived and harvested on the land during the nineteenth century. In 1947, agents acting on behalf of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and funded by Regent Richard L. Griggs and other Duluthians acquired the tax delinquent land of the Nortondale Tract for the new University of Minnesota, Duluth Branch’s future main campus.
A Chronology of UMD Events (1895-1984)
(1984) Anderson, Clarence; Hoshal, Julian; Lovstad, Roland
University of Minnesota Duluth: A Construction History, 1947-1986
(University of Minnesota Duluth, 1986) Bridges, Robert W
This document is an attempt to preserve, in an accessible form, relevant data concerning the planning, funding, construction, and use of each of the buildings on the new UMD Campus.
University of Minnesota, Duluth Campus Buildings & the People for Whom They Are Named
(1989) Bridges, Robert W.
UMD Comes of Age: the First One Hundred Years
(The Donning Company/Publishers, 1996) Moran, Ken; Storch, Neil

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