Southwest Baptist University Bolivar, Missouri, 2023

ID: 925 ~ Source: "Explore Campus." SBU Main Campus. Southwest Baptist University. 2023. https://www.sbuniv.edu/. ~ Creator: University of Central Missouri Department of History, R. Tyler Habiger ~ Date: c. 2023

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Southwest Baptist University Bolivar, Missouri, 2023 — "Explore Campus." SBU Main Campus. Southwest Baptist University. 2023.

The University as it exists today, c. 2023.

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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…