Carroll College
Founded in 1909 as Mount St. Charles College
Carroll College Joins NACU
Mount St. Charles College was renamed Carroll College in 1932 to honor its founder, Bishop John P. Carroll (1864-1925).
Bishop John P. Carroll
COURTESY OF THE DIOCESE OF HELENAOn September 27, 1909, President William Howard Taft laid the cornerstone of the college. Taft was on a tour through Montana, and came to Helena by rail that day, via Anaconda and Butte.
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“Carroll Village” Postwar Housing
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| Immediately following World War II, Carroll saw a dramatic increase in the enrollment of married students. Housing was found for them in Vancouver Washington, where the Federal Public Housing Administration was in the process of dismantling projects which had housed wartime shipyard workers. |
