1897 — Palmer School of Chiropractic (then known as Palmer School and Cure) in Davenport, Iowa, opens with a total of 14 students.

The first classes were held in the magnetic healing practice of D. D. Palmer in the Ryan Building at 2nd and Brady streets in Davenport. By 1902, 15 students had graduated, five of whom were MDs or DOs.

Palmer describes the program in a March 1897 issue of The Chiropractic:

“$500 will get you an education in three months which will better fit you for a healer of diseases, than any medical education in the world. Above does not include medicine, surgery, chemistry or obstetrics.”

Enrollment and space needs had increased by 1905, when Palmer purchased property at 828 Brady Street. This became the nucleus of the current campus, which today occupies most of the hilltop now called Palmer Hill.