New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts

New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
College seal, from the 1912 edition of The Granite yearbook
TypePublic college
EstablishedHanover, New Hampshire (1866)
RelocatedDurham, New Hampshire (1893)
RenamedUniversity of New Hampshire (1923)

New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (NHC) was founded and incorporated in 1866, as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College. In 1893, NHC moved to Durham, where it became the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1923, by an act of the New Hampshire General Court.