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Juliana Kim

Michigan State students discover traces of school's first observatory built in 1881

The exterior of MSU's first campus observatory, circa 1900. (Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections)

When Stacey Camp, an anthropology professor at Michigan State University, learned there was a hard, impenetrable surface underground north of campus, she assumed it was just a large rock.

But historic maps hinted at something bigger. After careful digging, her team of campus archeologists unearthed parts of a foundation that once belonged to the university's original observatory.

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