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FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY

Celebrates 125 Years

Fun Points of

Interest on Campus

CLOCK TOWER
Located at the center of Frostburg State
University's campus, the iconic Delaney Plaza
clock tower makes for the perfect backdrop
for photos, a place for lunch on a beautiful
spring or fall day, or a place to just gather
Mountain Maryland’s regional university, multicultural performance artists to the tri-state with friends.
Frostburg State University, celebrates its region. CES, along with numerous musical,
125th anniversary in 2023. From its humble theatrical and dance performances by FSU’s ARBORETUM
beginnings in 1898, spurred by the need talented faculty and students, combine to provide A unique feature that FSU has to offer is a 10-
for an additional school to “normalize” the over 50 entertainment opportunities in Western acre Arboretum where various plants are
training of public-school teachers in the Maryland each year. cultivated for scientific, educational, and
western part of the state, Normal School #2 decorative purposes. The Arboretum is free to
(the original name of the university) evolved Families across the region love to take part in visit and open to the community.
into the regional comprehensive university of events sponsored by the FSU Children’s Literature
today, providing transformational education Centre, which brings the community together for ECHO CIRCLE
for students as well as a cultural hub and annual events including Pirates Ahoy and Harry
economic driver for the region. Potter Book Night. Storybook Holiday, which was Frostburg State University's novel echo circles
featured on UPtv’s “Small Town Christmas” series located in the library and clock tower quads
Today, Frostburg State University (FSU) impacts in 2022, is another community favorite, where the encourage visitors to stand in the very center
the community and visitors with offerings such mountain city of Frostburg is transformed into a and talk to hear their voices echo back to
as the Cultural Events Series (CES), which winter wonderland with hundreds of elves (aka - them. However, others outside of the center
provides cultural, educational, and economic FSU students) roaming the streets during this circle will only hear a person's normal voice.
engagement by bringing diverse and magical holiday celebration each December. Be sure to find an FSU physics major to
explain it all!
BROWNSVILLE MONUMENT
Frostburg State University's Brownsville/Park
Avenue Monument, located in the Upper
Quad of campus, commemorates the largely
African American cultural hub that the
community became for the families that lived
there, before they were displaced as the
campus grew between the 1920s and 1960s.

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