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Description: An aerial view of the campus of Ohio University in Athens. The university is the first institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory, second west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the first in the United States to be endowed with land by the government with proceeds used to pay for its operations-revenue from two townships was set aside to support the university. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06819
Subjects: Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher; Northwest Territory--History
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio); Ohio