Column: Pomona College origin story leaves no cornerstone unturned

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What may be Claremont’s most obscure monument has stood at Fourth and College since 1895. It commemorates a new Pomona College headquarters that was started miles away in the foothills in 1888 and never completed. But the cornerstone was rescued seven years later and moved to the Claremont campus. The strange story is in my Wednesday column.

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