Let’s meet Carrie Steele

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Carrie Steele is the founder of The Carrie Steele–Pitts Home in Atlanta, Georgia. The organization is recognized as the oldest predominantly black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.

Carrie Steele  was working as a maid at the Union Railroad Station in downtown Atlanta when she discovered that abandoned babies and children were being left at the railroad station. She began to care for these children, placing them in an empty boxcar during the day and taking them home with her at night. In 1888, Steele chartered the organization, eventually selling her home and generating additional funds from the community to build the first facility called the “Carrie Steele Orphan Home.”

To learn more about The Carrie Steele–Pitts Home, click here.

Source: The Carrie Steele–Pitts Home