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Female Orphan Asylum - Children's Home of Portland
1828 - 15 prominent women from Portland society petitioned the state legislature to incorporate as the Female Orphan Asylum of Portland (later the Children’s Home of Portland). The bill was enacted in February and on the first of April, the women opened a fully operational orphan “house” on the corner of Free & South...
Female Orphan Asylum - 50th Anniversay Annual Report
1878 - The 50th Anniversay Annual Report of the Female Orphan Asylum.
Cornelius Sweetser Bequeaths Funds
1881 - Cornelius Sweetser dies; bequeathing funds to be used, "for the foundation, maintenance and support of an Orphan Asylum in Saco, to be called the Sweetser Orphan Asylum." It took three decades, but this was established on Moody Street in Saco.
Acts of Incorporation of Female Orphan Asylum
1891 - A photo of the Acts of Incorporation of Female Orphan Asylum
Little Samaritan Aid Society (later named Maine Home for Boys)
1893 - A picture of the Little Samaritan Aid Society, which was later named the Maine Home for Boys.
Children's Aid Society of Maine in Belfast, established
1893 - Children's Aid Society of Maine in Belfast, Maine established
Children's Aid Society - Act of Incorporation
1905 - Photo of the Act of Incorporation of the Children's Aid Society
Sweetser Orphan Asylum opens in Saco
May 20, 1917 - The opening of the Sweetser Orphan Asylum on Moody Street in Saco.
Children's Home 100th Anniversary Report
1928 - Angelic cherubs on the cover of the 1928 – 100 th anniversary report
Children's Home of Portland joins Sweetser Home for Boys
1949 - Children's Home of Portland joined with the Sweetser Home for Boys to become the Sweetser Children’s Home
Children's Aid Society of Maine joins Sweetser Children's Home
1950 - Sweetser Children’s Home brought the Children’s Aid Society of Maine into the fold
Sweetser Children's Home adds the Maine Home for Boys
1968 – Sweetser Children’s Home added the Maine Home for Boys
Ruel Ricker
Ruel Ricker was the first Sweetser farmer who lived with his family in the original farmhouse and raised horses, pigs and chickens, and supplied the campus with fresh vegetables. An annual Ricker Farm Day event has taken place for over thirty years each summer, as a tribute to him, his passion for farming and working the land. It continues to...
Sweetser Children's Services
May 28, 1992 - Sweetser Children’s Home becomes "Sweetser Children’s Services"
Acquires the Family Institute of Maine
1999 - Sweetser Children's Services acquires the Family Institute of Maine
Merges with Shoreline creating Sweetser
2000 – Sweetser Children's Services merges with Shoreline Community Mental Health Services and becomes “Sweetser”
Sweetser aquires PROTEA
2006 - Sweetser acquires PROTEA Behavioral Health Services for the provision of Outpatient Therapy and Medication Management Services
Sweetser acquires Richardson Hollow
2007 - Sweetser acquires Richardson Hollow in the greater Lewiston/Auburn area to expand Case Management Services
Transitions Mental Health and Phoenix Mental Health Acquired
2008 - Sweetser acquired Transitions Mental Health of greater Portland and Phoenix Mental Health of greater Bangor to expand our Affiliate network now approaching 500 strong.
More Sweetser History
You can click on the dates and images above or read a narrative of our history: the Story of Sweetser
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