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Explore the many ways you can support the Frances Perkins Center. Explore Options. Learn More & Sign The Petition FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, was the driving force behind the New Deal.
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The 57-acre Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic...
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Frances Perkins was born Fannie Coralie Perkins in Boston in...
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The 57-acre Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark along the banks of the Damariscotta River in Newcastle, Maine, is the ‘place of the heart’ of Frances Perkins.
francesperkinscenter.org · visit · frances-perkinsFrances Perkins Homestead - Frances Perkins Center
Frances Perkins’ ancestral homestead, a National Historic Landmark, is a saltwater farm consisting of 57 acres of woods and fields along the Damariscotta River in Newcastle, Maine. The 1837 brick home is listed as “The Brick House Historic District” in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Frances Perkins Center, a tiny homage to the first woman Cabinet Secretary in the US, is discreetly located on Main Street in the sweet town of Damariscotta, near the home of Perkins' grandparents in New Castle where she summered as a child.
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- 478 River Road, Newcastle, 04553, Maine
Feb 28, 2018 · The legacy of Frances Perkins is celebrated at the Frances Perkins Center in Damariscotta, Maine. Although nothing can take the place of an actual visit, news of the programs and research conducted by the Perkins Center is available via a monthly newsletter.
The Frances Perkins Center is a nonprofit organization located in Newcastle, Maine. [1] [2] Its mission is to inspire current and future generations to understand and uphold the government's role in providing social justice and economic security for all, based on the vision of workers’ rights advocate Frances Perkins.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan Center is currently headquartered in downtown Damariscotta, Maine where it offers a free interpretive exhibit on the life and achievements of Frances Perkins — the first woman to serve in a U.S. Cabinet, a key advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and a lifelong advocate for social justice and economic security.
