mystery locality in Mississippi

[Tom Moritz]

(<http://library.msstate.edu/exhibits/A_and_M_years/index.asp>)

                Mississippi State University: The A&M Years

                     The following is a photographic essay of life from
1880-1932 on the campus
                     of Mississippi State University. The University was
founded as Mississippi
                     A&M College in 1878 and campus operations began in 1880.
In 1932 the name
                     was changed to Mississippi State College, and in 1958 to
Mississippi State University.



At 07:25 AM 3/8/01 -0600, Thomas Lammers wrote:
>At 03:43 PM 3/7/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>This one has us stumped: I've searched the USGS site, a listing of all US
>>colleges, and a listing of all the community colleges in Mississippi, and
>>cannot figure out where the heck the following is or was:
>>
>>"A & M College, Mississippi, June 1930"
>
>Don't know this one for sure, but in the USA,  "A & M" generally refers to
>Agricultural & Mechanical [i.e., Engineering] Colleges.  Texas A & M is the
>best known and maybe only current one, but in the Nineteenth Century, many
>colleges started under provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act (so-called "land
>grant" colleges) were called A & M.  Iowa State University was once the
>Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts.  I suspect, but
>don't know for sure, that Mississippi State University was once an A & M.
>
>
>Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.
>
>Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
>Department of Biology and Microbiology
>University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
>Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA
>
>e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
>phone:      920-424-1002
>fax:           920-424-1101
>
>Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
>biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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