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A Member of the Ladies' Home Missionary Society Visits a Five Points Family
The Five Points Mission grew out of several Protestant missionary organizations that aimed to improve conditions in the Five Points. At first they attempted to convert residents from Catholicism; later the Mission obtained pledges from Five Pointers [...]
Tags: Five Points, Irish Immigration
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
A Five Points "Orphan" Is Taken In by Reverend Pease and the Five Points House of Industry
The Five Points House of Industry was organized by the Methodist minister Lewis M. Pease and headquartered in a notorious former slum building known as the Old Brewery. It was the first missionary effort in the neighborhood to offer vocational [...]
Tags: Five Points, Irish Immigration
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)