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The Mitchell House Museum was founded in 1982 as a project of the Mills Home Alumni Association. The museum is located in Thomasville, NC on the Mills Home Campus, the original campus of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina. It occupies the oldest building on the Mills Home Campus.
It encompasses 29 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites and 5 contributing structures. The district includes an orphanage owned by the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina and constructed from 1914 to 1959. Located in the district is the separately listed Federal style Cedar Dell plantation home. Other contributing resources are ...
It would later be known as Baptist Children's Homes and Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children. [5] [4] Sunrise's purpose was to house and care for children orphaned as a result of the American Civil War and its aftermath. [3] The original facility moved to a 20-acre (0.081 km 2) campus in Middletown, Kentucky, and was named Spring Meadows ...
In 1875, Buckner moved to Dallas to establish a Baptist orphanage. [2] He authored the charter for the Buckner Orphans Home, which opened in 1879 with three children. [2] He managed this home until his death in 1919, by which time it had housed approximately 12,000 children. [2]
Residential child care communities or children's homes are a type of residential care, which refers to long-term care given to children who cannot stay in their birth family home. There are two different approaches towards residential care: The family model (using married couples who live with a certain number of children) and the shift care model.
BCFS Health and Human Services (formerly Baptist Child and Family Services) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization based in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in emergency shelter, foster care, and adoption. It was founded as an orphanage for Hispanic children in 1944. [1]
For more information about the EDA Grant, visit www.thomasville.org. For additional information or questions, contact Schalk at (229) 227-4093. For additional information or questions, contact ...
Connie Maxwell Children's Home is a Baptist-church run residential group home headquartered in Greenwood, South Carolina, United States. [1] Since 1892, [ 2 ] Connie Maxwell Children’s Home has cared for and supported thousands of children and families.