Wheelock -- The Dartmouth College Land Grant

Wheelock -- The Dartmouth College Land Grant is a Vermont historical marker in Wheelock, Caledonia County.

Caledonia County · Route 122, on the village green, Wheelock

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The Dartmouth College Land Grant When Eleazer Wheelock founded Dartmouth in 1769, he sought land grants to support the new college. In 1785 the Vermont legislature chartered and named a town of 23,000 acres for Wheelock. In the early 1800's, half of Dartmouth's endowment came from this one grant, a gift of Vermont. Today Dartmouth awards scholarships to boys from Wheelock.

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