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Subject: Re: orphanage
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:17:08 EDT

In a message dated 7/2/2004 6:11:14 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:
Does anyone have any information on the Catholic Orphanage that used to be in
East Los Angeles in the ' 20's and ' 30's? Near Whittier and Boyle Avenues?


You are probably thinking of what is now Maryvale. I did a web search and
came up with this history. Maryvale continued past the 30's
however.


(Los Angeles Orphan Asylum, Maryvale)
As the population grew, the Daughters of Charity purchased property at 917
South Boyle Avenue for $12,000, On Thanksgiving Day, 1891, the new Los Angeles
Orphanage was dedicated. The old property at Alameda and Macy was sold to the
Southern Pacific Railroad for $65,000 allowing the sisters to pay off mortgages
and debts. The Boyle Heights site was home to over 6,000 girls over the span
of the next 62 years.

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