...Michigan Legislature of 1855, as a result of agitation by the Michigan State Agricultural Society. First State institution in the United States to offer...instruction in scientific and practical agriculture. In 1861, the legislature created the State Board of Agriculture and placed the Agricultural College...

...Michigan Legislature of 1855, as a result of agitation by the Michigan State Agricultural Society. First State institution in the United States to offer...instruction in scientific and practical agriculture. In 1861, the legislature created the State Board of Agriculture and placed the Agricultural College...

...first institution in the world devoted wholly to the study of Agriculture. Located three and a half miles from Lansing, the seat of the state government, surrounded by a dense forest and only reached by an often impassable wagon road across a long stretch of marshy ground, it was not surprising...