California State Bell - What is the California State Bell?

What is the California State Bell?

Written by Editor
Tuesday, 07 November 2006
The California State Bell The California State Normal School bell was forged in 1881 to commemorate the original California State Normal School campus in San Jose. The bell was created the same year a second State Normal School campus was established in Los Angeles, which would later become the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The bell is located on grounds of the California State University campus in San Jose (aka "San Jose State"), across the quad from Tower Hall. The words and characters "California State Normal School A.D. 1881" are forged into the Bell's iron shell. Historical facts regarding the bell are not well known because San Jose State does not favor the "California State" name forged into the bell, and therefore does not provide any information about its historical origins or significance on the school's history website or elsewhere. The Bell itself, however, indicates that it was forged in the State of New York for the California State Normal School.
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