Home for Aged Colored Females opens.

(April) Also called the Home for Aged Colored Women, it is founded by John A. Andrew, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, his mother Rebecca Parker Clarke, Rev. Leonard Grimes, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and others, it is located initially in downtown Boston, then moves to at 27 Myrtle Street (then Southac Street) in August 1860. Incorporated on March 4, 1864, it is created because existing institutions to aid indigent women did not African-Americans. Many of the original residents were former enslaved women who were without family members in Boston to care for them. The institutions moves to 22 Hancock Street in September 1900 and closes in 1944.