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Packer Establishes Lehigh University
- When
- July 27, 1865
- Where
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (university later described on South Mountain)
Asa Packer established Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on July 27, 1865, providing funding and land for a technical trade school focused on engineering.
Packer contributed $500,000 and 60 acres, later increased to 115 acres, for the establishment of a technical trade school for engineers. The passages place the university on South Mountain in Bethlehem, then a Moravian religious community, without dating the founding act to that exact site. The school was chartered in 1866 and began instruction then.
Sources
- Lehigh University Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
- Asa Packer Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-18
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