1865-1879
1865 1866 1867 1869 1870 1872 1873 1874 1877 1879
1865
December 20, An Act of the General Assembly creates the Indiana State Normal School. The City of Terre Haute contributes $50,000 and a promise to maintain forever one half of necessary expense in keeping the building and grounds in repair.
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1866
Terre Haute was chosen for the site of the Normal School
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1867
August 13, The cornerstone was laid for the Indiana State Normal School building. Total cost of the building was $189,000.
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1869
William Albert Jones becomes the first president
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1870
On Jan. 6 , 1870, Twenty-one students enter the ISNS for the first day of classes. Primary purpose of the institution's program was to train elementary school teachers
Courses in Grammar and Composition, Geography, History, Natural Sciences, and Arithmetic were offered in the first year
The Eclectic Society, the first literary society, was formed by Normal students
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1872
The first class of nine students, seven women and two men, graduated Indiana State Normal School. William W. Parsons and Howard Sandison were in this first class.
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1873
Chauncy Rose donated $4,000 to the ISNS for the purchas of books for the library
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1874
A four-year teaching course was established. This was a short-lived attempt
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1877
ISNS had a functioning Alumni Association by this year, when nearly 100 "normalites" gathered in Indianapolis
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1879
George P. Brown was appointed second President (1879-1885)
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