First Home of Pomona College

First Home of Pomona College is a California Historical Landmark in Pomona, Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles County · West Fifth and South White Streets, Pomona · location approximate

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Pomona College, incorporated October 14, 1887, held its first class in this small frame cottage on September 12, 1888. Those in attendance consisted of a mere handful of eager students, five faculty members and their president, Professor Edwin C. Norton. Five months later, January 1889, the college moved to the town of Claremont, where an unfinished boom hotel and a plot of land were given to the college.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

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Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

First Home of Pomona College

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