The institutional histories of Clemson University and North Carolina State University have been bound together in myriad ways over the past one hundred and twenty-seven years. Both schools began as land-grant institutions, utilizing federal funds made available through the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, the latter of which focused primarily on the former Confederate States in the U.S. South. The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was founded in 1887 and formally opened its doors in 1889, the very same year that the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina was founded, to officially open its doors four years later in 1893.
Historical Eye of the Tiger: Clemson v. NC State
