An independent, privately supported university founded 1873 by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York shipping & railway magnate, who gave $1,000,000 to start the university & expressed his wish that it should "contribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between all geographical sections of our common country."

Marker is on West End Avenue (U.S. 70 Spur), on the right.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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