About "Glenn Home" ~ Established in 1903, the former Vigo County Home for Dependent Children, better known as Glenn Home, was located on a hill overlooking U.S. 40, about 5 miles east of Terre Haute in the small community of Glenn. The Home ceased operation in 1979. Currently, the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha of Rose Hulman Institute of Technology resides in the main building and keep up the grounds.
The Main house and Boiler House still stand as well as three cottages, the African-American Children's home, and a gymnasium built between 1926 and 1949. The Main house and Boiler House were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
In September 2007, A memorial stone was placed for Glenn Home and the Home cemetery which is on the former grounds. This newsletter outlined the progress and plans for this memorial, as well as welcomes input from former residents, staff, and other individuals formerly associated with the Home. This project had been in the idea stage since approximately 2005 and finally was completed (2007). Subscribing to this newsletter will send you updates automatically.
Well, I guess I get my public speaking initiation!!!
I was invited to speak at the May 12 Wabash Valley Genealogy Society meeting on Adoption Records and the history of Vigo County orphanages / children's homes. Yep- history on all 3 of them that were here.
Thus I've had to brush up on my Indiana / Illinois adoption records laws and make sure all my contact names / numbers were correct. I've put togther a powerpoint presentation on both parts of the speech so that hopefully will help folks see these historical images better than on a computer screen.
I'll also be covering the Glenn Home memorial - the who, how, and why's on that as well as an update from Chad Overton - new owner of the African American home / Juvenile center building property- on his plans for developement of that land. Yes, sadly that building is coming down, but the way it was described to me there was no saving it. If they'd gotten ahold of the property 5 years ago or so it probably could've been internally redesigned and saved the shell of the structure. Sad...but true.
Anyway, I just wanted to post this here to invite you to join us at the downtown Terre Haute public library on Monday the 12th at 6:30pm.
Should be interesting.......hopefully I don't stutter too much!!! I am SOO not a speaker- I was the kid who'd flunk a class in school to get out of an oral book report! 
Till next time....
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