{"id":3241,"date":"2010-09-29T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2010-09-29T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:45:08","slug":"white-hall-school-camp-hill-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/09\/29\/white-hall-school-camp-hill-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"White Hall School – Camp Hill, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> On Thanksgiving day in November 1863 two children whose fathers were killed during the Civil War went to the executive mansion in Harrisburg<\/a>, Pennsylvania and asked for food. Apparently this experience<\/a> inspired Governor Andrew Curtin<\/a> to ask the Pennsylvania legislature to establish an organization to care for orphans of Union soldiers. While legislators did not appropriate the necessary funds, they accepted a private donation to set up an institution whose mission<\/a> was \u201cthe education and maintenance of destitute orphan children of deceased soldiers and sailors.\u201d Children remained in the system until age sixteen \u2013 for example, see this list<\/a> of \u201cSixteeners\u201d who left in 1877. Schools were set up in communities across the state<\/a>, including the White Hall School in Camp Hill. Professor David Denlinger opened the school in May 1866, but he quickly ran into trouble. As \u201cthe building was\u2026unsuitable for a school of this kind,\u201d James Laughery Paul explains <\/a>that that \u201ctyphoid fever prevailed to an alarming extent in the fall of 1867 and quite a number of deaths occurred.\u201d While the school closed in 1890, alumni returned to Camp Hill in 1926 and dedicated a monument in Willow Park (located at intersection of 24th & Walnut Streets). You can learn more about the organization in James Laughery Paul\u2019s Pennsylvania’s Soldiers’ Orphan Schools<\/a><\/em> (1876), the 1877 <\/a>and 1909 <\/a>Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers\u2019 Orphans<\/em>, and William Henry Egle\u2019s Andrew Gregg Curtin: His Life And Services<\/a><\/em> (1895).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thanksgiving day in November 1863 two children whose fathers were killed during the Civil War went to the executive mansion in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and asked for food. Apparently this experience inspired Governor Andrew Curtin to ask the Pennsylvania legislature to establish an organization to care for orphans of Union soldiers. While legislators did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156,47],"tags":[161,167,4759,160],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","category-places-to-visit","tag-battles-soldiers","tag-education-culture","tag-laws-litigation","tag-women-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}