Vineland Music Festival Site (Also known as the Menantico Colony) (Vineland, New Jersey)

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The property has several buildings, including the main one which is green in color, a red one assumed to be a school because there are desks inside, a brown well-kept church with no way to get in, and various other buildings such as garages. The buildings seem to be in fairly good condition with very little graffiti inside.

History:

March 1, 1888 marked the official opening of The Vineland Training School. The original name was ‘The New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feebleminded Children,’ and by the end of the first year was home to 55 boys and girls. The school was the first of its kind.

In 1892, the school introduced ‘The Cottage Plan,’ a method of organizing the community into small cottages as opposed to large institutional dormitories.

During it’s early years, The Training School was world-renowned for its mental studies. But not only did The Training School carry out vast research in the field of mental deficiency, including the areas of feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, heredity, pathology, biochemistry, neuropathology, clinical psychology, metabolism, blood chemistry, photomicroscopy, cephalometry, idiocy, criminology, speech pathology, birth injury, electroencephalography, and more, but the school also researched a wide variety of topics outside the range of mental studies.
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Coordinates:   39°26'6"N   74°58'13"W
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