Wayne County Childrens Home

Wayne County Childrens Home

Type	Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Children's Villages
Industry	Health and Social Care
Fate	Dissolved
Headquarters	Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations	2534 Burbank Rd, Wooster, Ohio

Locations

• 2534 Burbank Rd., Wooster, Ohio 44691

Timeline

• 1880 - July 5, Wayne County Commissioners purchased 82.25 acres for $12,500 to purchase a home for children.
• 1882 - March 20, J. B> Pinkerton was the first Children's Home Superintendent
• 1882 - Building needed essential renovation.
• 1940s - Family foster homes were found to care for the children.
• 1950s - Up to around the 1950s the Children's Home operated its own school having one teacher for all ages. Once the school closed children were sent to the Wooster public schools.
• 1960s through early 1970s - The number of children housed at the facility gradually declined.
• 1978 - Wayne County Commissioners

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