What connection does U Mass Dartmouth have with Dartmouth College, Hanover NH?
I can see no relationship. U Mass Dartmouth seems to have been founded as a “Textiles” college when New England was heavily into the textile business and later incorporated into the U Mass system. What is the relationship to Dartmouth College? see
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No relationship.at all. Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League college in Hanover, New Hampshire. UMass Dartmouth is in North Dartmouth, MA and is part of that state’s university system.
I knew that. My family all went to Dartmouth. I know all the words to Eliezar Wheelock [who also founded the Lebanon Congregationalist Church].I just can’t understand how the Massachusetts “Dartmouth” can use the name.
Unless it was something Dartmouth College set up for its own reasons. The Hanover/Lebanon NH area was very big into textiles in the early 20th century. I was born there. My grandfather owned the Lebanon Woolen Mills.
My S/O has been twitting me about your “high and mighty Dartmouth” since the news broke.
btw Daniel Webster went there.
Eliezar was minister of a congregational church in Lebanon CT before he gathered up his family, gradus ad Parnassum and 500 gallons of rum and went to found Lebanon NH and Dartmouth College.
I just thought the college might have had some interest in setting up a trade school in anotther part of New England.
found the answer—the puzzling reference to “textiles” came from a U Mass Dartmouth history recently published “two small technical colleges in the fading textile cities of New Bedford and Fall River . . . ” who merged to form the nucleus of U Mass Dartmouth in the TOWN of Dartmouth along the SE coast between Fall River and New Bedford.
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