CSU celebrates 150 years of the Morrill Act Jul 022012 Tweet Tweet On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Morrill Act, granting each state 30,000 acres of federal land for each member that state had in congress [more...] Posted by John Sheesley on July 2, 2012 at 11:06 am News Tagged with: Abraham Lincoln, Higher education, July 2 1862, Land-grant university, Lincoln, Morrill Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, United States 1 Response »