Inset: Ladies Hall and Normal School above.) Despite the similarities in name, it was no longer affiliated with the college and ultimately closed in 1971. In 1926, "and Normal School" was dropped from the name and the site in Canton eventually became Augustana Academy. The Eidsvaag Bell was installed in the school's belltower. Church leaders made the decision to merge Augustana College in Canton with the Lutheran Normal School in Sioux Falls under the name Augustana College and Normal School (ACNS). Housed in what is now known as Old Main, the Lutheran Normal School’s mission was to prepare teachers.īy 1918, city and business leaders lobbied hard for Augustana to relocate to Sioux Falls. Twenty-five miles to the north in Sioux Falls, the Lutheran NormalSchool opened its doors in 1889. By 1903, the College moved into a permanent home, its first in 43 years, on the east side of Canton along with the Eidsvaag Bell. The Seminary remained in Beloit and the name of the school was changed to Augustana College.
In 1884 with the institution needing more room, a group of Canton, South Dakota, citizens across the Big Sioux River pooled their money and bought the Naylor Hotel and offered the building to the Augustana Synod - with the condition that theschool move from Beloit to Canton. While in Beloit, the school reclaimed the name, Augustana Seminary and Academy. In 1881, leaders of the Norwegian Augustana Synod made the decision to “follow the people” and settled in Beloit, Iowa. Moving Westīy the late 1870s, the nation’s western frontier was bulging. In 1875, Augustana Seminary moved from Paxton to Rock Island, where it has remained since. A year later, in 1870, the Norwegian Augustana Synod was founded. Wisconsin farmer and Norwegian immigrant Endre Endresen Eidsvaag gave a bell to the school. They purchased a building in Marshall, Wisconsin, and in 1869 formed the Augsburg Seminary and Marshall Academy (photo on left). After a vote, the Seminary (photo on right) moved from Chicago 100 miles southwest, to Paxton, Illinois, and Hasselquist became the school’s second president.Ĭraving their own identity, the Seminary’s Norwegian leaders made the decision to separate from the Swedes. Plus, the Illinois Central Railroad promised land if the school relocated. Hasselquist believed that moving the Seminary to a rural area populated primarily by Scandinavians would be in the best interest of the growing school. Tuve Hasselquist, president of the Augustana Synod, lobbied for another move. Today, the two schools are among the oldest of the 40 colleges and universities affiliated with the Lutheran Church. 1, 1860 - a founding date shared with Augustana’s sister-college, Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. The document’s Latin designation was the “Confessio Augustana.”Īugustana Seminary held its first class on Sept. Christened in the basement of the Norwegian Lutheran Church on Franklin Street in Chicago, the Seminary’s name was drawn from the Augsburg Confession in 1530, during the time of the Reformation. The controversial move paved the way for Professor Lars Paul Esbjorn and a group of followers to establish a completely new institution - the Augustana Seminary.
On June 5, 1860, Norwegian and Swedish church leaders met in Jefferson Prairie, Illinois, to form the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod. For Augustana’s founders, it was time to make a move.
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