The Camps of Operacion Pedro Pan
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July 1961 – Summer camp located on 165 acres at SW 137 Avenue and 120 Street in South West Dade – This camp had facilities for sixty boys. When Kendall became over crowded, the 17 and 18 year old boys were moved there.
Oops!It looks like you don't have flash player installed. Click here to go to Adobe download page. Numbers continued to increase and the State Welfare Department approved the use of army tents. A building program began and eventually the use of tents was phased out. For a couple of years, the School Department of the Archdiocese and the De La Salle Brothers ran a high school, Matecumbe High School, in the camp. Camp Matecumbe closed in October 1964, when Bishop Carroll ordered all shelters for teenage boys, St. Raphael’s Hall, Jesuit Boys Home, and Matecumbe be consolidated in the Marine Corps Facilities at Opalocka Airport. In November 2003, Camp Matecumbe was purchased by the Parks and Recreation Department from the Archdiocese and became a public park.
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CARPA DE ... by ElFrances 1 06/19/2010 - 7:05am |
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October 1961 – Main Building located at 155 NW 14th Street, Florida City, FL 33034, with the boundaries being as follows: On the north, NW 16 St. On the south, NW 14 Street. On the east, NW 1st court. On the west, NW 2nd Court.
Oops!It looks like you don't have flash player installed. Click here to go to Adobe download page. The Catholic Welfare Bureau leased 80 apartments in Florida City. This was used as a transit shelter for girls and boys under the age of twelve. It was licensed by the State Welfare Department for 700 children. It had its own elementary school staffed by Sisters of St. Philip Neri from Cuba. It closed in June 1965, after most of the children were reunited with their parents. The buildings still exist and are used for lower income housing residents.
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1962 by mariaelena 01/07/2012 - 11:06am |
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January 7, 1961 - 11395 SW 79 Street – Dade County leased this facility to the Catholic Welfare Bureau for a dollar a year. It had been the County’s home for Black children. The County had desegregated its facilities the previous summer.
Oops!It looks like you don't have flash player installed. Click here to go to Adobe download page. It had sixty beds in two dormitories, four classrooms, and a small administration building. It opened with lay house parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pruna, followed by Mr. and Mrs. Porto. The Ursuline Sisters looked after the girls for a couple of months, then the St. Philip Neri Sisters. The Piarist Fathers were followed by the Marist Brothers until March of 1963, when it was reclaimed by the County Welfare Department. The Marist Brothers and the boys moved to former Marine Corps barracks at Opalocka Airport. Kendall is now a Metropolitan Dade County Park, “Indian Hammocks Park.” Some of the buildings are used by the State of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and the Miami Dade Department of Human Resources-Children’s Center.
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Former Marine & Naval Station – When all shelters for teenage boys, St. Raphael’s Hall, Jesuit Boys Home, and Matecumbe closed, all the boys were moved to this location. These barracks could accommodate 500. It closed in June 1966.
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December 26, 1960 – NW 7th Street and 29th Avenue. This was the only child care facility operated by the Catholic Welfare Bureau. It was staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph. It had 26 beds and cared for dependent children under the age of 12.
Oops!It looks like you don't have flash player installed. Click here to go to Adobe download page. Some of the first children to arrive on December 26, 1960, were taken there. It was used off and on to care for Cuban children until 1970. In 1970, it became the first home of St. Luke’s Substance Abuse treatment facility. It was demolished ca. 1980.
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remembering by rmontero 07/20/2010 - 9:15am |
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September 1961 – Biscayne Boulevard & 21st Street - Catholic Welfare Bureau leased an apartment building at this location.
Oops!It looks like you don't have flash player installed. Click here to go to Adobe download page. It was licensed for 70 teenage boys. Msgr. Walsh, the staff, and boys from the Ferré Home were moved to the new facility. The Jesuits took over the Ferré House as a residence for boys attending Belen Jesuit Prep School. The building was demolished in 1999.
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172 SE 8th Street – and Biscayne Boulevard and 114th Street - Seven months after the start of the Freedom Flights, most of the children had been reunited with their parents.
Oops!It looks like you don't have flash player installed. Click here to go to Adobe download page. The facility at Opalocka was closed and the remaining 25 teenage boys were moved to a leased apartment building at 172 SE 8th Street. About two years later, The Cuban Boys’ Home moved to a location on NE Biscayne Blvd. and 114th Street, where the original St. Martha’s Church was located.
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December 29, 1960 – 175 SW 15th Road – It became known as Casa Carrión until the summer of 1961 when the approximately 35 boys from Casa Carrión moved to St. Raphael’s Hall.
Oops!It looks like you don't have flash player installed. Click here to go to Adobe download page. In September 1961, the facility became the Jesuit Boys Home and included a second house next door, increasing the number of beds to 60. From its beginning, this facility was used for long-term placement, rather than as a transit shelter.
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