ST. JOHNLAND
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NYS Historic
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Religion
- 395 Sunken Meadow Rd, Kings Park, NY 11754, USA
- 40.902167907105, -73.240673426883
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Town of Smithtown
ST. JOHNLAND
Inscription
ST. JOHNLANDSOCIETY EST. HERE IN 1866 BY
WM. A. MUHLENBERG, 1796-1877,
CLERGYMAN, EDUCATOR AND
PHILANTHROPIST, TO MEET NEEDS
OF ORPHANED AND INDIGENT.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2020
In 1866, Protestant Episcopal Reverend William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796-1877) established St. Johnland to provide for the needs of the poor. The facility included buildings for elderly men, children, and young boys across 500 acres on the north shore of Suffolk County in the area now known as Kings Park. The general purpose was described at the time as “providing homes for the deserving and industrious poor who wish to escape the horrors of tenement houses; to afford a country refuge for the sick children of St. Luke’s Hospital… and to establish a home for old men, for whom, at the time the community was established, no place could be found but the Almshouse.”
The facility was mostly supported by Muhlenberg’s parishioners. He died in 1877, but the facility continued on as St. Johnland Nursing Center.
