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Historical Markers: 
A Campus Walking Tour:
Fort Lewis as a high school and junior college, 1911-1938

In 1911, Congress deeded the Hesperus site to the State of Colorado and the Governor signed a bill establishing an agricultural high school at Fort Lewis under the governance of the State Board of Agriculture, as a branch of the State College of Agriculture.
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