Enlightenment · North America · Culture

1754

King's College Founded in New York

1754

By royal charter on the edge of Manhattan, a small Anglican college opened with eight students. Renamed Columbia after independence, it would graduate Hamilton, Jay, and Gouverneur Morris - the men who drafted a republic. For now it was a drafty house facing the common. Its first classes met in the vestry of Trinity Church, in the shadow of the steeple that still stands on lower Broadway.

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