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Peoples Settlement House408 East 8th Street Wilmington, DE
By: Richard
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In the beginning…
• In 1901 Sarah Webb Pyle founded Peoples Settlement
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Sarah Webb Pyle
• Sara Webb was born on 1869 in Wilmington, Delaware
• She died on March 4, 1959.
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Sarah Webb Pyle School
• The Wilmington School board named what is now Sarah Webb Pyle middle school after her. The school was named for her before she died.
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Mother of East Side
• She was known as the Mother of the East Side of Wilmington because of all of her good work.
• She Retired on 1952 and moved to Daytona Florida.
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Now
They do community work for the east side of Wilmington
They give food and clothes to the people in need
They have a preschool program for the neighborhood
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They help with financial payment.
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More of what they do now
• They have a senior center
• They help find jobs and housing.
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What they did then
• They assisted the European immigrants to make the adjustments to their new homes.
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Mission
• The mission of Peoples Settlement Association is to improve the quality of the life the residents of the east side of Wilmington.
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Bibliography
• Interview: Alberta Ponzo, employed at Peoples Settlement (and my grandmother)
• Field trip to Peoples Settlement
• http://www.psassociation.org/