Albion College history

Foundations for a building were begun in 1837 at a location about 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of the current village of Spring Arbor but were soon abandoned due to the economic turmoil caused by the Panic of 1837.

In the end Methodist Church officials settled on an area near the Forks, officially moving the school location to the village of Albion, and changing the name to Albion Wesleyan Seminary in 1839.

The cornerstone of the Central Building (known today as Robinson Hall) was laid July 6, 1841.

The seminary, now named the Wesleyan Seminary, first held classes in 1843, in the local Methodist Church.

The Albion Female Collegiate Institute was founded in 1850 by the Wesleyan Seminary Corporation.

Diploma of Sarah Maynard, 1852 graduate of the Albion Female Collegiate Institute

The North Hall was erected in 1856, and has been used for a variety of college classes and programs through the years.

But in 1857, the two schools merged under the name of the Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at Albion.

Albion College, 1861-present The separate Wesleyan Seminary and Albion Female College finally joined together in 1861 when Albion College officially received its charter.

Robert E. Horton, (born May 18, 1875, Parma, Mich., United States—died Apr.

Illustration of the Quad, circa 1880, Bell House can be seen behind Central (Robinson) Hall

The Wesleyan Seminary’s first building, the Bell House, had been moved to a site off campus in 1881.

Prior to 1884 all athletic events at Albion College were primarily informal--similar to intramural sports or pick up games.

The first MIAA event was a track and field meet in late May and early June of 1888.

Miss Maggie Miller served as instructor of Shorthand and Typewriting at the school during the 1889-90 school year.

Albion College Pleiad, June 1890, and other issues.

The Albion notes were discovered in an 1895-dated box of generic notes (listed as Mavericks MAV-645 and MAV-655 in Schingoethe) of the "Sadler’s Bookeepers & Office Practice" kit.

After graduating from Albion College, Albion, Mich., in 1898, Horton spent eight years with the United States Geological Survey before joining the engineering staff of the New York State Barge Canal.

Table settings from Delta Tau Delta formal events circa 1915

The Commercial Department was closed in June 1916, as Albion College re-focused its emphasis on the liberal arts.

Seaton navigated difficult times of the Great Depression and World War II. Among his proudest achievements were founding a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa national scholastic honorary on November 8, 1940.

22, 1945, Voorheesville, N.Y.), American hydraulic engineer and hydrologist who established a quantitative basis for the analysis of the drainage of networks of streams.

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Herb and Martha Schingoethe, Neil Shafer, editor. "College Currency, Money for Business Training." BNR Press, 1993.

In 1998 Peter T. Mitchell, the 14th president of Albion College, began a city visioning effort.

Purple – College Development Zone (2000) Grey – Roads Brown – Railroad Blue – River, Mill Race, Mill Pond