page_title: Blue Mont Central College
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hierarchical_section_title: Blue Mont Central College / Name
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of old arch from Blue Mont College building in Manhattan, Kansas, dating from 1859. Now in Alumni Center building at Kansas State University.
context_page_description: Blue Mont Central College was a private, Methodist institute of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. The college was incorporated in February 1858, and was the forerunner of Kansas State University.
  After Kansas became a U.S. state in 1861, the directors of Blue Mont Central College offered the school's three-story building and 120 acres of its property to the State of Kansas to become the state's university. A bill accepting this offer easily passed the Kansas Legislature in 1861, but was controversially vetoed by Governor Charles L. Robinson of Lawrence, and an attempt to override the veto in the legislature failed by two votes. In 1862, another bill to accept the offer failed by one vote. Finally, on the third attempt, on February 16, 1863, the state enacted a law accepting the college building and grounds, and establishing the state's land-grant college at the site – the institution that would become Kansas State University. Blue Mont Central College ceased operations later that year after the school term was completed.
context_section_description: The college was named after a prominent hill in Manhattan, Kansas.  The name is sometimes written as "Bluemont" rather than "Blue Mont," but the articles of incorporation use two separate words.  The term "Central" was included in the name because the founders believed Manhattan was located very near the geographic center of the United States as it existed in 1858.
caption: Arch from the Blue Mont College building, dated 1859, now at the KSU Alumni Center
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