48.92.248
Print, Photographic
1978
UMW Ground Breaking Ceremony; University of Minnesota, Waseca Groundbreaking Ceremony 1978. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7". Description: black and white photograph; six men on the grounds of the UMW Campus; four of the six men holding shovels for the ground breaking ceremony; left to right: unidentified; unidentified; Minnesota House of Representatives Legislator, Rod Searle or Rodney Newell Searle, Sr; Member of the Minnesota State Senate, Tim Penny or Timothy Joe Penny; UMW Provost, Ed Frederick; unidentified.
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).