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Photos: UAF Cornerstone Rededication

On July 4, 1915, no buildings could be found amid the birch and aspen trees covering the home of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines.

The college had no class schedule, no students, no employees and no budget. The one thing it had, however, as of that day, was a 24-cubic-foot cornerstone.

This was no chicken-or-egg situation. The cornerstone came first, at a time when the college didn't exist, even on paper.

But it already lived in the imagination of James Wickersham, the Alaska delegate to Congress who dedicated a 3,600-pound cornerstone that day to give substance to his college dream.

READ MORE: UAF marks centennial of Wickersham's bold cornerstone bluff

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