Lucas County Children's Home : Marker #52-48
N 41° 34.704 W 083° 37.119
17T E 281695 N 4606280
Lucas County Children's Home
Waymark Code: WMAHWW
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 01/18/2011
Views: 11
Front Text : "Lucas County Children's Home"
For nearly a century, this 98-acre site was occupied by an orphanage that, over the years, cared for several thousand destitute children. Founded in nearby Toledo in 1867 as the Protestant Orphan's Home, the orphanage became the Lucas County Children's Home shortly after it was relocated to this former farmland in 1887. It was renamed the Miami Children's Center in 1960 before closing permanently in 1986. The main campus, across the River Road, was sold for residential use. The playground, on this side of the road, originally connected to the main campus by a tunnel, was given to the Maumee school system in 2004 as the site for the current Ft. Miami Elementary School. On these grounds, the laughter of a new generation of children at play is being heard once more....a fitting tribute to the disadvantaged boys and girls who formerly lived here.
Back Text : Same as front.
In front of Fort Miami Elementary School
2501 River Rd
Maumee, OH 43537
Marker Number: 52-48
County: Lucas
Significance of Location: Building or House
Bicentenial Mark: no
Additional Coordinate: Not Listed
Additional Coordinate description: Not listed
Website address: Not listed
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