A Brief History of CU Boulder
Boulder’s first schoolhouse opened in 1860, but it was far from the last school to be built here!
The University of Colorado in Boulder was established in the early 1870s when the Colorado territorial legislature made an amendment to the constitution that provided money for three universities. CU was, of course, one. The other two were the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and the Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins, both of which still exist today.
But at first, there was some debate about exactly where to put the new university. Two cities were competing for it: Boulder and Cañon City. Boulder beat out Cañon City for a very practical reason: the state needed a new prison, and Cañon City was already home to one. That made it the ideal location for another, since the infrastructure was already in place. But imagine what Boulder would be like today if things had gone the other way!
The funding of CU was made possible namely by donations, which totaled $15,000 and were matched the territorial legislature. It was, all in all, a cooperative effort between the government and the community, which already seemed to place a high value on education.
CU opened its doors (or …read more
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