Founded in 1842, it is the oldest university in the Western United States.

Founded in 1842 as the replacement and continuation of the former colonial Royal University of San Felipe ( 1738 ) ( Spanish: Real Universidad de San Felipe ), the university is often called Casa de Bello ( House of Bello ) in honor of its first president, Andrés Bello.

Founded in 1842, it ranks as the oldest coeducational college located west of the Mississippi River.

Founded in Montreal, Quebec, as The Sun Insurance Company of Montreal in 1865 by Mathew Hamilton Gault, an Irish immigrant who settled in Montreal in 1842, its operations actually began in 1871.

Founded in 1842 as Howard English & Classical School by the Alabama Baptist Convention.

Founded in 1834, it was the first college in Indiana and third college in the United States to admit women ( 1842 ).

Founded in 1909, the RMAC is the fifth oldest college athletic conference in the United States ( oldest in Division II ), surpassed only by the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Big Ten Conference, the Ohio Athletic Conference, and the Missouri Valley Conference.

Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, Bucknell traces its origination to a group of Baptists from White Deer Valley Baptist Church who deemed it " desirable that a Literary Institution should be established in Central Pennsylvania, embracing a High School for male pupils, another for females, a College and also a Theological Institution.

Founded by G. W. Bowers and A. H. Davison on September 6, 1889, the railway town was connected first by the Rock Valley Railway, followed by the Iowa & Dakota Railroad.

Founded by the Kara-Khanid Khanate in the 9th century, Balasagun soon supplanted Suyab as the main political and economical centre of the Chuy Valley ; its prosperity declined after the Mongol conquest.

Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, its objective was to concentrate the scattered inhabitants of the Aserrí Valley.

Founded in 1997 as Albany Anthrocon ( AAC ) in New York State, with a membership of about 500, the convention moved to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1999 and 2000 ; then to a larger hotel, the Adams Mark, on the outskirts of Philadelphia in 2001.

Founded by Jordan Barney working in behalf of the University of Rochester in 1922, WHAM has grown to become the dominant AM newstalk station serving Rochester and the Genesee Valley.

Founded in 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MVIAA ), the only college conference that is older is the Big Ten.

Founded in Silicon Valley in 1984, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Longmont, Colorado ; Dublin, Ireland ; Singapore ; Hyderabad, India ; and Tokyo, Japan.

Founded as late as 1853 during the German colonization of southern Chile, Puerto Montt soon outgrew older neighboring cities due to its strategic position at the southern end of the Chilean Central Valley being a gateway city into Chiloé Archipelago, Llanquihue and Nahuel Huapi lakes and Western Patagonia.

Founded in 2004, The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University is a premier arts destination in the Roanoke Valley featuring the work of internationally renowned artists, emerging figures, and regional names.

" Founded by novelist Oakley Hall and writer Blair Fuller, it is held each summer in Olympic Valley, California.

Founded in 1960 and incorporated in 1961, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum originally stored equipment at the Western Union pole yard which was located adjacent to the Southern Railway classification yard on Holtzclaw Avenue in East Chattanooga.

" Founded in 1960 by Ralph E. Ogden as a museum for Hudson Valley painters, it soon expanded into a major sculpture venue with the acquisition of works from the estate of sculptor David Smith.

Founded in 2002, this team placed third in the 2005 world championships in Atlanta, Georgia and generally competes at the Silicon Valley Regional, the Sacramento Regional, and CalGames each year.

Founded in 1997, WCG have 2 data centres in Brisbane, one at Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley, and another in Spring Hill at a PIPE Networks facility.

Founded in 1901, Alamo lies in the Pahranagat Valley.

Founded in 1956, by the late Vernon E. Simpson, Montclair College Preparatory School was one of the oldest private, co-educational, independent, secondary schools in the San Fernando Valley.

Founded in 1956, River Valley High School ( RV ) was the first Chinese secondary school set up by the government.

* Steven T. Usdin, Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin And Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley, Yale University Press ( October 10, 2005 ), hardcover.

* Podcast interview with author of Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley Part I Part II

* Steven T. Usdin, Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin And Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley, Yale University Press October 10, 2005, hardcover, ISBN 0-300-10874-5

* Podcast interview with Steven T. Usdin, author of Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley, Part I, Part II

Founded in 1878 as a campground along the Ligonier Valley Railroad by Thomas Mellon, Idlewild is the oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania and the third oldest operating amusement park in the United States behind Lake Compounce and Cedar Point.

Founded on January 3, 1863 ; the town it is presumed was named after Franz Sigel, a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Founded in 1922, the Soviet Union was formally a federation of Soviet Republics, Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union and other federal subjects, though in practice highly centralized under the Government of the Soviet Union.

Founded in 2001, Chatham has a rugby team in the Southwest Rugby Union:

Founded on January 15, 1939 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations ( now called the Union for Reform Judaism ), the then-titled National Federation of Temple Youth was a program to encourage college students to engage in synagogue life.

Founded in 1994 by Pete Lawrence and Katrina Larkin, The Big Chill began as a series of ambient parties at the Union Chapel in Islington, but developed into an outdoor festival in 1995, with an unlicenced event in the Black Mountains of Wales.

Founded in the 1870s, the club became a founder member of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881.

Founded in late 1881, it was originally one of several competing organizations of descendants of Union veterans.

Founded in 1956, the HEF is a member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union ( IHEU ).

Founded by veterans of both the Union and the Confederacy, Concord is named for the ideal of " harmony and sweet fellowship ".

Founded on April 6, 1946 as the Mizo Common People's Union.

Founded in 1872, Wigan was a founding member of the Northern Rugby Football Union following the schism from the Rugby Football Union in 1895.

Founded by William McKeen, the Union Pacific Railroad's Superintendent of Motive Power and Machinery, the company was essentially an offshoot of the Union Pacific and the first cars were constructed by the UP before McKeen leased shop space in the UP's Omaha Shops in Omaha, Nebraska.

Founded in 1849, the University of Virginia's Philomathean Society formed as a splinter group from the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union.

Founded in 2004, the school is a member of the San Dieguito Union High School District.

Founded in 1897, LSE Students ' Union is one of the oldest Students ' Unions in the UK, and often regarded as one of the most politically active in the country-a reputation it has held since its origins, when it held fortnightly political debates known as the ' Clare Market Parliament '.

Founded as part of the Union Triad, along with the Kappa Alpha Society and Sigma Phi Society, Delta Phi was the third and last member of the Triad.

* 1997: Founded Schwebheim Junge Union association

Founded in 1979 through the merger of Belize General Development Workers ' Union and the Southern Christian Union.