Plummer Home for Boys: Difference between revisions

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Once the Plummer Farm School of Reform for Boys, now just simply, the Plummer Home for Boys, it was started in 1855 with money bequeathed by Caroline Plummer. In 1955, it became more of a home for abandoned and neglected boys instead of a reform school. Most of the boys (from ages 14-18) attend Salem High School and become part of the community. A new initiative in 2007 was the addition of an apartment suite available for older boys to give them some independence.
This 19th century home is tucked into a beautiful parcel of land at Winter Island in Salem.
Plummer is also well known for her contributions to the Salem Athenaeum and for the endowment of a Professorship that bears her name at Harvard University; the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals.

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-*Once the Plummer Farm School of Reform for Boys, now just simply, the '''Plummer Home for Boys''', the home was started in 1855 with money bequeathed by [[Plummer, Caroline|Caroline Plummer]]. In 1955, it became more of a home for abandoned and neglected boys of a reform school. Most of the boys (from age 14-18) attend Salem High School and become part of the community. A new initiative in 2007 was the addition of an apartment suite available for older boys to give them some independence.
+*Once the Plummer Farm School of Reform for Boys, now just simply, the '''Plummer Home for Boys''', it was started in 1855 with money bequeathed by [[Plummer, Caroline|Caroline Plummer]]. In 1955, it became more of a home for abandoned and neglected boys instead of a reform school. Most of the boys (from ages 14-18) attend Salem High School and become part of the community. A new initiative in 2007 was the addition of an apartment suite available for older boys to give them some independence.
 *This 19th century home is tucked into a beautiful parcel of land at Winter Island in Salem.
 *Plummer is also well known for her contributions to the [[Salem Athenaeum]] and for the endowment of a Professorship that bears her name at Harvard University; the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals.