Thought this might be of interest. I picked it up from another terrific site.
Elizabeth Lee Caldwell
Some of the following information is taken from the Reg Niles book
published in 1981, which I cannot locate; the rest from various web searches.
Jefferson County area:
Bellewood-Presbyterian Home for Children, Louisville and Jefferson County
Children's Home, Metropolitan Social Services, Saint Thomas Orphanage,
Saint Vincent Orphanage
Ashland (Boyd County): Ramey Children's Home, State Department
Barbourville (Knox Co): Pentecostal Children's Home
Bethany (Wolfe Co) Bethany Children's Home
Beulah Heights (McCreary Co): Beulah Mountain Children's Home
Bowling Green (Warren Co): Cumberland Presbyterian Orphan's Home, Potter
Children's Home, State
Department
Buckhorn (Perry Co and Clay Co) : Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency
Bulan (Perry Co): Evangel Children's Home
Carthage (Campbell Co): Carthage Holiness Orphanage
Cattlesburg (Boyd Co): Boyd County Boys' Farm
Clinton (Campbell Co): Campbell County Protestant Orphans' Home
Cold Springs (Campbell Co): Campbell Lodge, Holly Hill , Saint Joseph
Diocesan Orphanage
Cornettsville (Perry Co): Open Door Children's Home
Covington (Kenton Co): Booth Memorial Hospital, Catholic Social Services
Bureau, Covington Protestant
Children's Home, Hope Cottage, Protestant Children's Home, Saint John's
Orphanage, Salvation
Army Hospital, State Department
Danville (Boyle Co): Christian Church Children's Center
Elizabethtown (Hardin Co): State Department
Farmington (Graves Co): Paradise Friendly Home
Fort Mitchell (Kenton Co): Catholic Children's Home
Fort Thomas (Campbell Co): Our Lady of the Highlands
Frankes (Bell Co): Henderson Settlement
Frankfort (Franklin Co): State Department, Williams Home
Glendale (Hardin Co): Glendale, Kentucky Baptist Children's Home
Greendale ( Fayette Co): Kentucky House of Reform
Harrodsburg (Mercer Co): Pennebaker Home for Girls
Hazard (Perry Co): Open Door Children's Home, State Department
Hope (Montgomery Co): Hope Hill Children's Home
Hopkinsville (Christian Co): Christian County Youth Services, Southside
Church of Christ Children's
Home, State Department
Irvington (Breckinridge Co): National Home Finding Society
Leitchfield (Grayson Co): Catholic Charities, Lexington (Fayette Co), Boys
Ranch, Inc, Catholic Social
Service Bureau Children's Home, Colored Orphan and Industrial Home, County
- Family and
Children Services, Florence Crittenton Home, Division of Children's Services
Fayette County Children's Bureau, Kentucky Baptist Board of Child Care,
Lexington Charity organization,
Lexington Orphan Society, Odd Fellows' Orphans Home, Pythian Home, State
Department, University Medical Center
London (Laurel Co): State Department
Louisville (Jefferson Co): All Prayers Foundlings Home, Boys Haven,
Brooklawn, Catholic Charities,
Christian Church Home, Colored Orphans Home, Covenant of the Good
Shepherd, Jefferson
County Agency, Susan Speed Davis Home, Faith Foundling Home, Family &
Children's Agency,
Family Service Org, German Protestant Orphan Asylum, Good shepherd Home for
Colored Girls,
Home of the Innocents, Jewish Children's Home, Kentucky Children's Home,
Kentucky Home
Society, Louisville Baptist Orphans, Louisville City Hospital, Louisville &
Jefferson Co
Children's Home, Maryhurst Foster Care, Maryhurst School, Masonic Widows
Orphans Home,
Methodist Episcopal Church Widows and Orphans Home, National Children's
Training Home,
National Home Finding Society, Orphanage of the Good Shepherd, Our Lady's
Covent of the
Good Shepherd, Our Lady's Home for Infants, Presbyterian Orphans Home,
Protestant Children's
Home, Saint Anthony's Hospital, Saint Joseph's Catholic Orphans Society,
Saint Joseph's
Infirmary, Saint Peter Claver's Industrial School, Saint Philomen's
Industrial School, Saint
Thomas Orphanage, Saint Vincent Orphanage, Saint Mary & Elizabeth's
Hospital, Salvation
Army Home, State Department, Widows & Orphan's Society
Lyndon (Jefferson Co): Kentucky Children's Home
Maykind (Letcher Co): Regular Baptist Orphanage
Maysville (Mason Co): Mason Manor
Middletown (Jefferson Co): Kentucky Baptist Board of Child Care, Spring
Meadows
Morehead (Rowan Co): State Department
Newport (Campbell Co): Home of the Good Shepherd, Youth Haven
Owensboro (Daviess Co): Catholic Charities
Daviess County Children's Center, Kendall Home, State Department
Paducah (McCracken Co): Burton & Gaines Friendly Home Inc, Home of the
Friendless, State Department
Pine Ridge (Wolfe Co): Scott Children's Home
Salyersville (Magoffin Co): Dora Lee Children's Home
Somerset (Pulaski Co): State Department
South Fort Mitchell (Kenton Co): Catholic Children's Home
Versailles (Woodford Co): Cleveland Home, Methodist Home of Kentucky
Whitesburg (Letcher Co) : Mountain Haven Children's Home
Winchester (Clark Co): Happiness Hill
With few exceptions, I don't have addresses, web sites, or dates of
operation on any of the above.
KENTUCKY BAPTIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: Triad East, Suite 200, 20200 Linn
Station Rd, Louisville, KY 40223. (502) 245-2101; (800) 456-1386,
info(a)kbhc.org
Opened after the Civil War. A second Baptist children's home was
established in 1915 in Glendale. A rural campus originally called Kentucky
Baptist Children's Home, this part of the ministry is now known as Glen
Dale Children's Home. The two ministries operated separately until 1954
when the Kentucky Baptist Convention created a single board of child care
to oversee their operation. A third campus, Pine Crest Children's Home,
opened in Morehead in 1956. It served children until its closure in 1971.
An earlier-closed adoption program was reopened in 1990 and is now known as
KBHC Pregnancy and Adoption Services. Cornerstone Counseling was begun in
1992 with one office in Bowling Green. There are now 22 Cornerstone offices
statewide -- in Ashland, Berea, Bowling Green, Campbellsville, Corbin,
Covington, Frankfort, Harlan, Harold, Hazard, Henderson, Hopkinsville,
LaGrange, London, Louisa, Madisonville, New Castle, Owensboro, Paducah,
Pineville, Somerset and Stanford.
St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Society. Has been in operation for 146 years,
opened in 1849. According to their web site: "The Louisville, Kentucky
cholera epidemic of 1832 took many lives and left many children as orphans.
During that time, a handful of German Catholics, recognizing the grave need
to care for these children, formed the St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Society
in 1849. The Society built its first home in 1850, but increasing numbers
of children prompted several locations before settling at the present site
in Crescent Hill, established in 1885. Notre Dame Sisters from Milwaukee
administered the Home from 1865-1897. The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville
staffed the Home from 1897 until 1972. Since then, they continue to serve
the children, but under individual administrators hired by the Board of
Trustees. In 1851, a fair was organized to meet the payments on the
Society's first home. This annual picnic continues to be a major fund
raiser as well as a community social event. Families have changed since
1849, but at St. Joseph our commitment to children has not. Through the
years, we have offered hope to family-crisis situations, assisting the
child in overcoming obstacles which could limit growth and development.:
Online Newsletter Mailing Address: St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Society,
2823 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206, Telephone: (502) 893-0241,
Fax: (502) 896-2394, E-Mail: sjkids(a)aol.com
Masonic Homes And Orphanages. According to information from their web
site: " This is the oldest category of organized Masonic philanthropy. From
its earliest beginnings, Freemasonry has admonished its members to provide
support for widows and orphans, especially those of former Masons. This
care was initially provided by local lodges, but it eventually came under
the oversight of Grand Lodges as they began providing for their needy with
centralized facilities. The first Masonic home in the United States was
established by Kentucky Masons in 1866, the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home
and Infirmary in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1927, the residents moved to a
new facility in Masonic Home, Kentucky. Today 39 state Grand Lodges
maintain homes, and 11 still have orphanages, though the need for the
latter has diminished. Most Grand Lodges without homes care for their needy
through various endowments that support them in outside facilities. The
services provided in this category are generally available to Masons and
their relatives, though some Masonic orphanages allow lodges to sponsor
orphans unrelated to a Mason.
St. John's Orphanage, Kenton Co. Quotation from "Pieces of the Past, By Jim
Reis, Post staff reporter The orphanage's origins began June 4, 1848 when a
group of people met to organize a home for Catholic orphans in Kenton
County. Until then Catholic orphans in Northern Kentucky were cared for in
Cincinnati.
The new orphanage was dedicated in spring 1871. Nine children were housed.
The Benedictian nuns were in charge. Initially only girls were placed at
St. John's Orphanage. Boys were sent to St. Joseph's Orphanage in Cold
Spring which also opened in 1871. Diocesan records indicate in 1885 St.
John's began accepting boys as well as girls. As a result more dormitories
were needed and in 1892 a three-story brick addition with classrooms,
playroom, dormitories and living quarters for a resident chaplain was
built. Over the next decades the number of children at the orphanage
gradually grew. Not all were Catholics and most were not orphans. In many
cases the children came there after their mother or father died and the
remaining parent could not care for the children and work at the same time.
In some cases the parents divorced and the children ended up at the
orphanage. A fire struck the orphanage on Feb. 10, 1926. By 1929 the
orphanage had 104 children.
St. Joseph Orphanage in Cold Spring was organized in Newport in 1866 as the
St. Boniface Orphan Society. The Walsh Farm on Alexandria Pike in Cold
Spring was purchased on May 9, 1870, for an orphanage site. The farm
included 125 acres, barns and an eight-room house, which was converted into
the orphanage. St. Joseph Orphanage opened on May 12, 1869. In 1961 St.
Joseph Orphanage was merged with St. John's. Publication date: 06-23-97"
(c) Copyright 17 May 2001, Sandra K. Gorin, All Rights Reserved.
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