The Children's Study Home, marking its 145th year, held its annual meeting on June 23 in Springfield's Barney Carriage House in Forest Park.
In 1865, a group of Springfield residents formed the Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children as a way to help "friendless and destitute women and children and to give them employment and instruction with the ultimate design of providing for them a more permanent situation or fitting them to maintain themselves."
