Fort Wayne Children's Home (Fort Wayne, IN)

Collection

Identifier: Institutional RG 009

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Fort Wayne Children's Home collection consists of: 50th Anniversary booklet, 1933; History; Newsletters 1960-1969 (incomplete); Yearbook 1900.

Dates

Creation: 0000 - 0000

Biographical / Historical

The Fort Wayne Orphans Home was founded in 1883 by three synods of the German Reformed Church. It also operated Woodhaven, a maternity home for teen-aged mothers, from 1959 to 1972. In the 1950's the home added the Crossroad program for emotionally troubled children, which continues to this day.