Wayne County Childrens Home
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Type | Residential Care Facilities; Children's Villages |
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Industry | Health & Social Care |
Fate | Dissolved |
Headquarters | Wooster, Ohio, United States |
Number of locations | 2534 Burbank Rd, Wooster, Ohio |
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- 2534 Burbank Rd., Wooster, Ohio 44691
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- 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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