Did you know Harvard University was named after John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution?
Named for William Legge, the Second Earl of Dartmouth and founded in 1769, Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college.
Brown moved to its current spot overlooking Providence on College Hill in 1770 and was renamed in 1804 in recognition of a $5,000 gift from Nicholas Brown.
Opened in 1846, this Gothic Revival style building is the third and current home of Trinity Church, part of the Episcopal Diocese of New York City.
Chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, Princeton University was British North America's fourth college.
