New England Home for Little Wanderers (first) is established.

Originally the Union Mission & Home for Little Wanderers, it is founded by a group of ten Boston area businessmen and located initially on Salem Street. The oldest child welfare agency in the U.S., its original purpose is to care for children who had been orphaned and left homeless by the Civil War. It changes its name to the Baldwin Place Mission & Home for Little Wanders because of its location in the former Baldwin Place Baptist Church, then to the New England Home for Little Wanderers in 1899, when it moves to West Newton Street (second) in 1888.*  It moves to South Huntington Avenue in 1915,* merges with Boston Children’s Services in 1999, and with the Parents’ and Children’s Services in 2003, moves to Walpole in 2012, and merges with Wediko Children’s Services in 2020.