The Catholic Orphanage at Nazareth once stood on hundreds of acres southwest of Raleigh, ... whose father, Roger Dunbar, moved into the orphanage at the end of the Great Depression, when he was 5.

One subject, 74-year-old Mary Korlaske, had been swept into the orphanage by the Great Depression's devastating effect on family finances and had cooperated as a 12-year-old with Tudor, hoping the ...

At one time the orphanage was surrounded by a 270-acre farm with chickens, pigs, ... Its peak population of 703 children came in 1933 during the Great Depression.