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Orphanages in the United States by state or territory (9 C) Pages in category "Orphanages in the United States" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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Building on the campus. The Hutton Settlement is an orphanage institution founded and endowed by mining magnate Levi W. Hutton in 1919. Following much research and a nationwide tour of orphanages for inspiration on the best orphanage design and organizational structure, a settlement on a 111-acre (45 ha) plot was designed to function as a working farm with an administration building and four ...
Coptic Orphans Support Association, better known as Coptic Orphans (CO) is an international development organization that has transformed the lives of over 86,000 children in Egypt since 1988.
Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha. Using a loan of $90, he first rented a home at 25th and Dodge streets, in Omaha, to care for five boys. [2]
The Orphanage was established as a segregated orphanage with Congressional funding in 1883, through the Colored Orphanage Association (formed in 1882), that was supported by Congressman Henry P. Cheatham. A twenty-three-acre farm was purchased for $1,565.00 just outside Oxford.
Jenkins was a businessman and Baptist minister who encountered street children and decided to organize an orphanage for young African Americans. [1] The original site of the orphanage was 660 King Street, but the number of orphans quickly outpaced the facilities. In 1893, the orphanage moved to the Old Marine Hospital at 20
By 1951, residents of the Children's Home were no longer educated on site, but were bused to segregated public schools. [ 5 ] The West Virginia Colored Children's Home was closed in 1956 and the building was used as a nursing home , the West Virginia Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Men and Women. [ 2 ]