December 4, 2024 – It was this week in 1890 that Mayville State University first began classes as the Mayville Normal School with seventeen students and four teachers on the second floor of the city’s firehouse.Although Mayville State University first opened its doors in December of 1890, its history is intertwined with the State’s founding a year earlier. In the summer of 1889, as...
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