1870
 

The first classes at the new school were held in May, 1877 and were taught in Price Hall, which was built on the current site   of North Hall. It was a five story building overlooking the Susquehanna River.

Albert N. Raub, the first Principal of the Central State Normal School (now Lock Haven   University),
1877-1884.

 

First graduating class includes
3 women and 18 men.

Price Hall burns, In its place, a new school, which housed offices, classrooms, and residence halls, was built at the current
site of Stevenson Library.

New building (Sullivan Hall) laid.

 
Sullivan Hall, 1889

1914 

State of Pennsylvania purchases institution.

Charles Lose, Principal of the
Central State Normal School, 1914-1920

Warren Nevin Drum, Principal of the
Central State Normal School, 1920-1925.

Central State Normal School Gymnasium, built in 1896; renamed in 1953 in honor of James H. Rogers, Class of 1949,
World War II veteran and
student athlete, who  died in 1952.

 
Rogers Gym, 1922

Dallas W. Armstrong, Principal of the Central State Normal School, 1925-1927; First   President of Lock Haven State Teachers College, 1927-1937.

Due to changes in its mission led to changes in name, to State Teachers College at Lock Haven

 
Classroom, 1922

1927 

Authority granted to confer baccalaureate degrees in   elementary/secondary education & health/physical education.

 
Campus Bookstore, 1938

Richard T. Parsons, an alumnus of the school, was named the school's third college president. Under his leadership, which lasted until 1970, the student population grew from 146 to over 2300
and teaching faculty increased from 25
to 170. It was also under his leadership
that the institution experienced its
largest building program.

Lock Haven State Teachers College
began a nursing program called the
Cadet Nurses Training Program in cooperation with Lock Haven Hospital.

Institution accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Universities.

 Name changed to Lock Haven State College.
                                                             

Homecoming, 1963

School of Arts and Science started. Liberal arts B.A. degree offered in Humanities, Social Science, and Natural Sciences.

 Bentley   Hall, the main campus dining hall
 (food service building) completed in 1966   and named in honor of Deborah M. Bentley, college dietician, 1923-1957.

1982 

Craig Dean Willis inaugurated as President

Name changed to Lock Haven University
as a result of the creation of the
State System of Higher Education

Masters of Liberal Arts degree
program implemented.

Clearfield Campus established

Associate degree program in
Nursing offered.

1991 

First strategic plan completed.

Master of Education, Master of Health Science/Physician Assistant in
Rural Primary Care approved.

The Student Recreation Center opened

Fredericks Family Memorial Carillon,
dedicated in 2001 and donated
by Dr. Carol Fredericks.

East Campus complex
(formerly Lock Haven High School),
purchased by LHU in 2002.

2005

Dr. Keith T. Miller inaugurated as President

Michael   Fiorentino, Jr. ,
the Fourteenth President of the University