Research Catalog

Title

Sweet Briar College / Lynn Rainville and Lisa N. Johnston.

Author

Rainville, Lynn.

Publication

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

Johnston, Lisa N.

Description

127 pages : chiefly illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

On October 29, 1900, Indiana Fletcher Williams died, leaving her 8,000-acre plantation estate and almost $1 million to create the Sweet Briar Institute. Later renamed Sweet Briar College, it was founded by Williams to honor her daughter, Maria Georgiana Daisy Williams, who died tragically in 1884 at age 16. For over a century, Sweet Briar has recruited dedicated faculty and staff to teach exceptional students. The schools award-winning lands include old-growth forests, rare arboreal and floral species, scenic hiking and riding trails, and two lakes. Complementing these natural resources are beautiful campus buildings, many of which are listed in national and state historic registers. Each of these features is rare for a college campus; taken together, they compose the rich physical and community heritage of an historic college that celebrates its 115th birthday in 2015. -- Amazon.com.

Series Statement

The Campus history series

Uniform Title

Campus history series.

Subject

Sweet Briar College > History > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 127).

Contents

Sweet Briar Plantation -- Indiana's will and wishes -- First years of the College -- Sweet Briar College in the 1920s-1930s -- Sweet Briar College in the 1940s-1950s -- Sweet Briar College in the 1960s -- Sweet Briar College in the 1970s-2014 -- Campus places -- Tradition and change in 2015.

ISBN

• 9781467134699
• 1467134694

LCCN

2015950705

OCLC

• ocn916736775
• 916736775
• SCSB-9440225

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library