Buena Vista, c. 1950, courtesy of United Protestant Association of NSW.
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Buena Vista was a boys' home established in Orange by the United Protestant Association of New South Wales in 1950. Buena Vista closed in 1982 as a children's home, and was converted to a specialist adolescent unit, in partnership with Mission Australia.
Sources used to compile this entry: Agst, Thomas Urich [with Robert J Martin], The UPA Story, United Protestant Association of NSW Ltd, Wahroonga, n.d., 67 pp; Hanson, Dallas, Why are they in children's homes: report of the ACOSS children's home intake survey, Australian Department of Social Services: Australian Council of Social Services, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1979, 83 pp; Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf.
Prepared by: Melissa Downing
Created: 22 March 2011, Last modified: 6 December 2013
Last updated: 4 August 2023
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