Maine Memory Network

Good Will orphans, Fairfield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1920 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Orphans sledding, Hinckley, ca. 1915

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1915 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

139-151 Pleasant Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Female Orphan Asylum Use: Orphan Asylum

Assessor's Record, 147 Pleasant Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Female Orphan Asylum Use: Garage used as Playhouse

Sweetser Children's home, Saco, 1948-1951

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1951 Location: Saco Client: unknown Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Sarah Sampson: Caring for Soldiers, Orphans

Sarah Sampson of Bath went to war with her husband, a captain in the 3rd Maine Regiment. With no formal training, she spent the next four and a half years providing nursing and other services to soldiers. Even after her husband became ill and returned to Maine, Sampson remained in the Washington, D.C., area aiding the sick and wounded.

Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fred Ryder, Bangor, 1864

"… Museum Description Fred Ryder was an orphan who lived with his uncle in Bangor. He sold candy on the streets."

Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous

An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.

Julia Winters and Life in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine
by Judy Zaccagnini Flynn, granddaughter

6 year old sent to Maine foster home when her parents were unable to care for her