CROMWELL CENTER

The Cromwell Center was founded by Jamie Kaplan and Irv Shapell and named in honor of Jeremiah Cromwell, a young resident of The Maine School for the Feeble Minded (later called Pineland) who died of appendicitis in 1928 at age 14. No family member claimed his body, and his grave at Pineland was marked only by a small cement cylinder stamped with his patient ID number. In the late 1950s, the cement was replaced with a modest tombstone bearing Jeremiah's name and the years of his brief life... The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness is dedicated to the purpose that no person with any kind of disability will ever again experience the profound isolation in life and anonymity at death as Jeremiah Cromwell. (Read more about Jeremiah below.) Our mission is to promote safe, respectful and inclusive schools and communities.

Also known as: The Cromwell Center

Primary location: Portland United States