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Built by a professor and his students, the structure and its telescope cost about $450 in 1881. Archaeology students will excavate the site next summer to learn about the university’s first observatory.
The foundation of Michigan State's first observatory was discovered this summer after construction workers, drilling hammock posts, hit something unusually hard underground.
The foundation of Michigan State's first observatory was discovered this summer after construction workers, drilling hammock posts, hit something unusually hard underground.
M Stacey Camp, director of the Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University, said she has "big plans," including building a plexiglass cover over of a 142-year-old observatory unearthed by students in a clearing near a student residence hall and having it nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.