The William George Agency for Children's Services

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From Wikipedia: George Junior Republic was an American industrial institution, situated near the small village of Freeville, in Tompkins county, New York, U.S., 9 miles east-north-east of Ithaca, at the junction of the Sayre-Auburn and the Elmira-Cortland branches of the Lehigh Valley railway. The George Junior Republic formed a miniature state whose economic, civic and social conditions, as nearly as possible, reproduce those of the United States, and whose citizenship is vested in young people, especially those who were neglected or wayward. The founder, William Reuben George (born 1866), was a native of West Dryden, a village near Freeville, who as a businessman in New York City became interested in the Fresh Air Fund charity supervised by the New York Tribune, took charge of summer outings for city children (1890–1894), and, becoming convinced that such charities tended to promote pauperism and crime among the older of their protégés, devised first (1894) the plan of requiring payment by the children in labor for all they received during these summer jaunts, then (1895) self-government for a summer colony near Freeville, and finally a permanent colony, in which the children stayed for several years.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Junior_Republic
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Coordinates:   42°30'28"N   76°19'58"W

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  • Lousy place to work
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