LEGACY - Bayland Orphanage
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ggmorton
N 29° 42.786 W 094° 59.611
15R E 307159 N 3288658
A marker near a boat ramp.
Waymark Code: WMQ1E
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2006
Views: 33
This marker has been replaced with one containing a new description and name.
Marker Number: 10609
Marker Text:
(Site 1/2 mi SE)
Established in 1866 by Texas Confederate veterans for children of deceased soldiers. Had capacity for 250. Rev. Henry F. Gillette was first superintendent. C. S. A. Col. Ashbel Smith, diplomat, soldier and statesman, was staff doctor. Trustees included leading citizens.
Donations from Harris and Galveston counties started the home, but later gifts came from as far away as New Orleans.
After the Confederate children grew up, home and school were opened to others. Bayland was forerunner of the De Pelchin faith Home, of Houston.
(1964)
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