Southwest Baptist University Bolivar, Missouri, 1910

ID: 924 ~ Source: About SBU: History. SBU Archives. Southwest Baptist University. 1910. https://www.sbuniv.edu/about/history.php. ~ Creator: University of Central Missouri Department of History, R. Tyler Habiger ~ Date: c. 1910

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Southwest Baptist University Bolivar, Missouri, 1910 — About SBU: History. SBU Archives. Southwest Baptist University. 1910.

SBU’s original building, c. 1910.

This file appears in: Bolivar, Missouri Southwest Baptist University

Bolivar, Missouri Southwest Baptist University

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, R. Tyler Habiger

Bolivar has been home to a nationally renowned university for over 140 years. Southwest Baptist University (SBU) was founded in 1878 in Lebanon, Missouri, before being chartered the next year by the State of Missouri and moved to Bolivar. The early…