The West Florida Seminary used the charter date before 1905, when the Buckman Act reorganized higher education in Florida and the three resulting state institutions adopted 1905 as their founding date. In 1935 the Florida Board of Control changed the founding dates of the University of Florida and the Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University) to the years their predecessor Seminaries opened as state-sponsored institutions, and Florida State's founding date was changed to 185...
