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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.
Lafayette Charity Hospital at 311 West St. Mary Boulevard in Lafayette, Louisiana, was a state-owned teaching hospital that opened on September 29, 1938, [1] to provide free medical care for the indigent population of southwest Louisiana and the Heart of Acadiana. [2] On June 12, 1982, Lafayette Charity Hospital (by then an outmoded facility ...
Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice.The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead.
The former St. Cabrini Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1910 as the Columbus Hospital Extension. It became St. Cabrini Hospital in 1946 Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana , founded shortly after her canonization, and named because Bishop Charles Greco had met her in his childhood [ 98 ]
The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum was founded in 2009 [22] in a restored Union Pacific freight depot housed within Le Vieux Village Heritage Park in Opelousas, Louisiana. [23] The museum has a collection of original documents, clothing, and photographs of orphan train riders as both children and adults. [ 24 ]
The hospital was created by the Louisiana Legislature in 1847 and commenced operations in 1848. The hospital was originally known as the "State Insane Asylum." The location was chosen because Jackson is situated in an upland well-drained location that is relatively free of disease-bearing mosquitos, which plagued asylums in New Orleans.
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital opened on August 1, 1949 with 50 beds. In 1958 a four-story addition was constructed, doubling the hospital's capacity to 110 beds and allowing expansion of surgery, emergency services, laboratory and radiology departments.
Gilbert Academy was a premier preparatory school for African-American high school students in New Orleans, Louisiana. Begun in 1863 in New Orleans as a home for colored children orphaned by the American Civil War, the home moved to Baldwin, Louisiana, in 1867. The Orphans Home evolved into a school and, over the next 80 years, became Gilbert ...