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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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The Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. founded in 1986 in Springdale, Arkansas preserves the history of the orphan train era. [20] The National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, KS is a museum and research center dedicated to the Orphan Train Movement, the various institutions that participated, and the children and agents who rode ...
Riverdale Childrens Association, 120th anniversary, 1836-1956. Founded in 1836 as the Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans by N.Y. Riverdale Children's Association (New York). From Cherry Street to Green Pastures: A History of the Colored Orphan Asylum at Riverdale-on-Hudson, 1836-1936 (New York: Riverdale Children's Association, 1936)
The Children's Aid Society started the Orphan Train Movement in 1853 to help the homeless, abused, and orphaned children living on the streets of New York City; the beginning of the modern-day foster care system in the United States. Jacob Riis' "Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters 1890." Mulberry Street in Manhattan.
Today the area is known as the city of Welch, Minnesota and the site of the original village, including the church and orphanage, is on the National Register of Historical Places as the Vasa Historical District. It is the best preserved early Swedish settlement in Minnesota with architecture representative of the era, from which Swedish-descent ...
The Lincoln Colored Old Folks and Orphans Home was founded by Eva Carroll Monroe in 1898. [3] Monroe had moved to Springfield from Kewanee, Illinois two years earlier and managed to save $125 in that time and place a down payment on the property. Despite her fellow townspeople thinking her foolish to do so, Monroe wished to open a home to care ...
The Presentation Children's Home is a historic building at 701 South Western Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.Built to replace an earlier orphanage in Turton that burned down, it functioned not only as an orphanage—one of the few in South Dakota—but also as a school from its opening in 1940 to its closure in 1966.