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Guide to the Pennsylvania Reform School Records 1857-1907
Metadata Details
- Title
- Pennsylvania Reform School records 1857-1907
- Subject
- Pennsylvania Reform School (Morganza, Pa.), Juvenile detention--Pennsylvania
- Description
- The Pennsylvania Reform School records include grade reports, school reports, committee reports and minutes, student release forms, parole requests, correspondence, financial records, and court documents. Box one contains lists of student residents, grades and merits for each student, court records documenting the crimes that were committed by students, requests of commitment of new students on behalf of the parent, and correspondence of the superintendent, J. A. Quay, which reveals the inner workings of the school. Boxes two and three contain financial records of the institution. Box two houses salary reports, check receipts, receipts for goods and services, and account payable stubs. Box three contains account receivable receipts., Pennsylvania Reform School records, 1857-1907, MSS 790, Thomas Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Washington County Authority Gift 2011 2011.0213, The Pennsylvania Reform School, originally the House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania, opened in 1850 as a reform school for local delinquent children. Originally located on the north shore of the Ohio River, the school relocated in 1872 to Morganza, an area northeast of Canonsburg, Pa., in Washington County. The school changed its name in 1876 to the Pennsylvania Reform School. The school was the home of youth under the age of 21, many of whom were convicted of crimes such as theft, larceny, rape, and murder. The school often applied strict discipline policies to force adherence to their rules, and students were often contracted for labor in nearby farms. In 1911, the school, attempting to remove the stigma of a reform school, changed its name to the Pennsylvania Industrial Training School. The school changed its name a fourth time in 1960, to the Canonsburg Youth Development Center. In 1962, a hospital for the mentally handicapped also opened its doors on the campus. The Youth Development Center was eventually phased out of existence, and the mental hospital, eventually named the Western Center, utilized some the former reformatory buildings. The Western Center closed in 2000, and the buildings were demolished in 2011., Gift of Washington County Authority, Processed MSS 0790 952012 D. Flansburgh, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Pennsylvania Reform School, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1857-1907
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 3.0 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:817999189, pitt:US-QQS-mss790
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss790
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Morganza (Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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