Site of Benicia Seminary
[Marker mounted on front of base (Photo #1]
The birthplace of Mills College, founded in 1852 as the Young Ladies' Seminary of Benicia. Acquired from Mary Atkins by Cyrus and Susan Mills in 1865. It was moved to its present site in Oakland in 1871 and was chartered as a college by the State of California in 1885.
[Marker mounted on back of base (Photo #2]
To Remember
The pioneers who believed in education
and supported it: The teachers who
dedicated themselves to learning and
nourished it: The students who came for
knowledge and grew to citizenship in
the early Capital of California
Mills College
Founded in Benicia 1852
Erected by Benicia Old Timers Committee
A.D. 1937
[A second marker mounted on back of base (photo #3)]
Erected by Benicia Parlor 89, N.S.G.W., Mills College Alumnae Assn., May 2, 1965
Marker is on West Military Street when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
