University of the Big Bend Traditional Cache
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University of the Big Bend
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Located on the campus of the University of the Big Bend. Easy park and grab on this beautiful campus. Container contains a log book, frog, travel bug, geocaching card and a pencil. Requires stealth. Watch for muggles!
Located on the campus of Sul Ross State University - the University of the Big Bend. 1917: A New College is Founded Sul Ross State University, located in Alpine in Brewster County, was created by an act of the 35th Legislature in 1917 as a state normal college to train teachers. Named for Lawrence Sullivan Ross, governor of Texas from 1887 to 1891 and president of Texas A&M College from 1891 to 1898, the institution was the successor to Alpine Summer Normal School. The bill creating the institution provided that the residents of the town would provide land, water and utilities for the college and housing for the students. This condition was met, and following a delay occasioned by World War I, the Legislature in 1919 appropriated $200,000 for buildings and equipment. Construction proceeded, and under the presidency of Thomas J. Fletcher, Sul Ross State Normal College began operations in the present Dolph Briscoe Jr. Administration Building on June 14, 1920. Who Was Sul Ross? Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross, soldier, statesman and university president, second son and fourth child of Catherine Fulkerson and Shapley Prince Ross, was born at Bentonsport, Iowa Territory, on Sept. 27, 1838. His parents had moved from Missouri to Iowa in 1834; the family immigrated to Texas in 1839 and settled initially in Milam County, where young Sul had his first encounter with hostile Indians, then for a period at Austin, where the older children attended school, and finally in 1849 at Waco, where Shapley Ross became a pioneer settler, entrepreneur and landowner. Note: This information found on the Sul Ross State University website.
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