1860-1869

• 1860 - First Bridge on campus to cross the Red Cedar River
• 1860 - Michigan Agricultural College returns to a four year curriculum
• 1861 - First M.A.C. students go to war
• 1861 - Judge Hezekiah Wells was named a member of the State Board of Agriculture
• 1861 - M.A.C. members join the Civil War effort
• 1861 - Williams Helps Reorganize the College
• March 15, 1861 - Name of College changes to State Agricultural College
• July 2, 1861 - Congress passes the Morrill Act establishing land grant colleges
• 1862 - College served as prototype for land-grant institutions established under the 1862 Morrill Act
• December 1862 - Theophilius C. Abbot is Named the Third President of the College
• 1863 - Dr. Robert C. Kedzie joins the faculty
• 1863 - Oscar Clute became an instructor
• 1865 - Albert N. Prentiss and a new variety of tomato
• 1865 - Dr. Manly Miles becomes the first professor of scientific agriculture in America
• 1865 - First Baseball team
• 1868 - Student population exceeds housing in Saints' Rest
• 1868 - The first known student newspaper is published
• 1869 - First Williams Hall Built
• 1869 - President Abbot Cleans up the Campus