They really, really like promoting the fact that the school was established in 1820. Certainly nothing wrong with that. This thought crosses my mind everytime I go there. Just what was someone thinking when the decision was made to put/start the original state U there? Its basically 50 miles from anywhere. For the time span mentioned that was an obstical. A person might not think of that considering how things are in the auto age but 50 miles was huge back in the day.