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The history of Ohio Wesleyan University began with discussions of a college in Ohio in 1821 when the Ohio Methodist Conference in connection with the Kentucky Conference had established Augusta, the first Methodist institution of higher learning in the United States. But Augusta was an obscure village, quite inaccessible and especially because it was on the “wrong” side of the Ohio River to suit the growing anti-slavery sentiments of the people of Ohio.
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The desire to establish an institution of higher learning was discussed for several years but did not assume a practical form until The White Sulphur Spring Property, a sanatorium in Delaware, Ohio, and also the geographic center of Ohio was offered for sale and Adam Poe in the summer of 1841 that it be purchased for the purpose of founding a new institution of higher learning. The property, which covered ten acres of land with the former Mansion House and a few other buildings was bought on November 17th, 1841 by the committee of Ohio citizens for $10,000.00 and the payment was concluded in 1849.