Lewis Clark State College

The sign skips the years the school did not exist. Lewiston's normal school and its southern twin at Albion were authorized together in 1893, and both stopped operating in 1951, after a legislative study of the state's colleges and a legislature that did not fund them for the next biennium. Albion never reopened. Lewiston did, in 1955, as Lewis-Clark Normal School, run at first as a two-year teacher-training division of the University of Idaho and independent again as a four-year college from 1963. The 1971 renaming made it the last normal school in the country to change its name.

What the plaque says

Lewis Clark State College Was created by the legislature in 1893 as a two year normal school to train teachers. After more than half a century of growth, Lewiston State Normal School expanded into a four-year college in 1947. An area vocational school and a nursing education program were added in 1965. Designated a state college in 1971, Lewis-Clark continues to specialize in teacher education. 314 Text prepared by the Idaho Historical Society Marker made & installed by Idaho Transportation Department

Where it stands

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