Mount Pleasant Home for Destitute Children - Room and board cost approximately one dollar a week per child.

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Mount Pleasant Home for Destitute Children - Room and board cost approximately one dollar a week per child. The children were taught to cook, wash, iron, knit, sew, mend clothes, and all the duties of a household. The older children attended school regularly and made commendable progress in their studies. The orphanage operated here until the building was destroyed by fire in 1920.

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Location: United States of America, South Carolina, Mount Pleasant
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