About: College Place   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

College Place was nothing more than sagebrush until Walla Walla College was established in 1892. The land was donated for the university by Dr. Nelson G. Blalock. College Place was given its name in 1891, after Seventh-Day Adventists in Washington and Oregon decided to establish a college in the area adjacent to Walla Walla's southwest border. Even before the first stones were laid for the college's first buildings, the land around the site was platted and Adventist families began buying lots. The 1960s saw major growth for the college as several new buildings were constructed.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • College Place
rdfs:comment
  • College Place was nothing more than sagebrush until Walla Walla College was established in 1892. The land was donated for the university by Dr. Nelson G. Blalock. College Place was given its name in 1891, after Seventh-Day Adventists in Washington and Oregon decided to establish a college in the area adjacent to Walla Walla's southwest border. Even before the first stones were laid for the college's first buildings, the land around the site was platted and Adventist families began buying lots. The 1960s saw major growth for the college as several new buildings were constructed.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • College Place was nothing more than sagebrush until Walla Walla College was established in 1892. The land was donated for the university by Dr. Nelson G. Blalock. College Place was given its name in 1891, after Seventh-Day Adventists in Washington and Oregon decided to establish a college in the area adjacent to Walla Walla's southwest border. Even before the first stones were laid for the college's first buildings, the land around the site was platted and Adventist families began buying lots. Edward Sutherland (1865-1955), the school's first administrator, traveled around the Northwest recruiting students. Walla Walla College was open to all students, writes Aamodt, "as long as they agreed to observe the sacredness of the seventh day Sabbath on the campus and to avoid disseminating infidel views at the school." Students were allowed to live with their families or in the school dormitories. In 1892, the school was a single brick building. The early years of the century were a slow period of growth for the college and College Place. College Avenue, the main street of the town, was graded in 1905, but didn't get gravel until 1917. It wasn't until 1924 that at least the main part of College Avenue was paved with concrete, and even then the residential streets received only a thin layer of gravel. Due to various issues with fire and water, the citizenry began to push for incorporation. It was believed to be the largest village in the state that wasn't incorporated during the 1920s and 30s. Incorporation failed to pass until after World War II. College Place was officially incorporated on January 19, 1946. The incorporation measure passed 193-145. The 1960s saw major growth for the college as several new buildings were constructed. Walla Walla College changed their name to Walla Walla University in 2007.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software