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Columbus Federation of Settlements: Columbus, Ohio: United States [15] East Side House Settlement: Bronx, New York: United States The Educational Alliance: New York, New York: United States [16] Franklin-Wright Settlements, Inc: Detroit, Michigan: United States [17] Friendly Inn Settlement House: Cleveland, Ohio: United States [18] Gladden ...
Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.
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United Neighborhood Houses of New York is the federation of 38 settlement houses in New York City. [23] These and other settlement houses inspired the establishment of settlement schools to serve isolated rural communities in Appalachia, such as the Hindman Settlement School in 1902 and the Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1913. [citation needed]
Hiram House: Cleveland, Ohio: United States Holy Child Settlement: Poplar, East London: England Hull House: Chicago, Illinois: United States John Stewart Settlement House: Gary, Indiana: United States North East Neighborhood House: Minneapolis, Minnesota: United States Girls' Club of San Francisco: San Francisco, California: United States ...
Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House, 1931. The Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded in 1924 by the Council on Social Agencies (CSA) and the Women's Cooperative Alliance (WCA). [1] Its original function was to provide a recreational facility that could be used by the Minneapolis African American community. [2]
The following is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Georgia.Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have reverted to pasture land or empty fields.
Slave house with a sugar kettle in the foreground at Woodland Plantation in West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana. Houses for enslaved people were often of the most basic construction. Meant for little more than sleeping, they were usually rough log or frame one-room cabins; early examples often had chimneys made of clay and sticks.