Bussey Institution
Harvard's school of agriculture and horticulture, run on the Arnold Arboretum grounds from 1883 until 1936, when its work folded into the university's biology programs.
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Bussey Institution enters the civic record in 1883.
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Look for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Sam Langford →Cambridge History DeskLocal historian
Look for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Sam Langford →
What this meant before
- Established
- 1883
- Graph connections
- 1
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Explore Bussey Institution in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Bussey Institution is linked, through the graph, to Cambridge — city, 5.0 mi away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
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