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In 1953, Peter W. Bowman became the superintendent of the Pownal State School, which in 1957 became the
Pineland Hospital and Training Center. This name would be shortened to Pineland Center in the early 1970s. Over the next 18 years, Pineland Center received national recognition for the care of the
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Pineland Farms did generate revenue, they also had therapeutic value. They would, as Gordon said, "keep these poor unfortunates employed
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breed, whose line is denoted with names beginning with T or R. Pineland used the "Wilsondale" prefix on the product until 2001, when it merged the
Wilsondale herd with select prominent herds from around the country. A noted cow was Kissammee Dundee Haley, whose daughter, Pineland Goldwyn Hemi -ET
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Pineland and other facilities released their residents. Routine care and therapy for these former residents ended and they drifted from their new homes. By June 1995, approximately sixty patients remained at Pineland Hospital.
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Pineland Farms solely as a commercial venture, and that the location did not meet the needs of the Maine school. The committee suggested that the State move the school to a better location.
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Pineland Center residents were reintegrated into society. The most able of the hospital population were re-homed into apartments in the 1990s. Many advocates for the homeless noted that Maine's local
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