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George R. Agassiz Station, Harvard
In December 1951, Harvard University decided to rename its Oak Ridge Station in Harvard, Massachusetts, the George R. Agassiz Station. It was named in honor of George R. Agassiz (AB 1884) in recognition of his part in the planning and construction of the observatory and his life-long interest in the department of astronomy. Agassiz had also served on the University Board of Overseers from 1924 to 1937, and had been its president for eight years. He had died in 1951.
In August 1982, the "Agassiz Station" name was transferred to a site in Texas when the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station (est. 1956) was officially renamed the George R. Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory. The new site was on Cook Flat, a valley at the base of Mount Locke, in the Davis Mountains about five miles northwest of Fort Davis.
