Philadelphia's Progressive Orphange: The Carson Valley School
Entry/Object ID
2002.41.8
Description
Hard cover, 262 pp.
Philadelphia's Progressive Orphange: The Carson Valley School, Hard cover, 262 pp. Although the book title makes mention of Philadelphia, The Carson Valley School is and was always located in Flourtown, Springfield Township, Montgomery County, just outside the Philadelphia city limits. The Philadelphia "connection" is the founder's wish to create an orphanage for girls modeled on Girard College, founded in Philadelphia as an orphange for boys.
A bookplate found inside the Front Cover nidicates this book was a gift to The Germantown Historical Society from the Author in August, 2002.