Category: Social Movements & Services, Social services, Orphanages
Item 7370
Auditorium, Good Will Farm, Fairfield, 1911
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1911 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 7518
George Walter Hinckley with Good Will boys, Fairfield, 1893
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1893 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 148197
Opportunity Farm two fire escapes, New Gloucester, 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: Megquier & Jones Co.
Item 148198
Opportunity Farm cow barn end framing, New Gloucester, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: University of Maine Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture
Exhibit
George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls
George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.
Exhibit
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.
Story
Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous
An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.
