Founded in 1906, Hope Farm was a home and school for disadvantaged children in Dutchess County, NY. Dutchess County is a County located in the US state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The Hope Farm School was renamed Greer School in 1939/40, in honor of David Hummell Greer, the former Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York. David Hummell Greer (1844 was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop
The first high-school class (consisting of five students) graduated from Hope Farm School in 1932. Prior to that, students attended the public high school in nearby Millbrook (NY).
Among the early Presidents of the Board of Directors were famed orthopedic surgeon Russell A. Hibbs, Edward Pulling (founder of the Millbrook School), and Arthur W. Millbrook School is a private coeducational preparatory school located in Dutchess County, New York, USA. Butler.
The facility later came under the auspices of Greer-Woodycrest Children's Services and, in the 1980s, received many Haitian refugees.
The property is currently the site of The Fountains at Millbrook, a retirement community.
Sources
- Lyons, Richard D. , "Haitian Children Who Escaped By Boat Await Adoption Upstate", New York Times, July 11, 1981.
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