Wheelock -- The Dartmouth College Land Grant
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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Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
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