65.11.7

Booklet

1980

UMW Southern Experiment Station Legislative Request. Material: paper, plastic. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: parchment colored card stock covers with a dark plastic strip spine binder; cover graphics of two buildings and title, "University of Minnesota Institute of Agriculture, Forestry & Home Economics Southern Experiment Station, Waseca, Minnesota, 1980 Legislative Request for Capital Improvements"; contents includes a preface by Superientendent Richard H. Anderson, a table of contents listing detail of request, current map, summary of the 1980 request for land, dairy heifer facility, machinery storage building, fire protection system, city sewage system relief and other reviews, projections, inventory and staff.

In August 1912, the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents purchased 246 acres of land half a mile to the south and west of Waseca on the edge of the city limits. The Southeast Demonstration Farm and Experiment Station began operations in 1913. In 1925, the Southeast Demonstration and Experiment Station became the Southeast Experiment Station. In 1941, with an additional land purchase, the station totaled 598 acres. Land was set aside for the Southern School of Agriculture (SSA) which admitted its first students in 1953. In 1969, the Southern School of Agriculture evolved into the University of Minnesota Technical College-Waseca then it was renamed as the University of Minnesota-Waseca (UMW), sharing land with the newly named Southern Experiment Station (SES). In 1992, UMW graduated its final class and then the UMW campus buildings were sold to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In 1999, the Southern Experiment Station became the Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC).