Locations in Samantha's Series
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This is a list of specifically named locations in the Samantha series and film; Nellie O'Malley is included.
[edit] Coldrock House
An orphanage for girls located in New York City. Nellie, Jenny, and Bridget are sent there after the death of their parents (their father in the film).
[edit] Colored Part of Town (Mount Bedford)
The area of Mount Bedford where the colored people, including Jessie, live. It is on the other side of the railroad tracks from the upper class area. The streets are dark and narrow with drab, narrow, and dark houses with little grass. Nellie was once sent there to fetch medicine for Mrs. Ryland and so knew its location.
[edit] Clark School
A boarding school in Boston on Beacon Street. Miss Brennan attended there at about Nellie's age and trained to be a teacher. The school takes in Irish girls who want to become more than maids and factory workers.
[edit] Miss Crampton's Academy for Girls
The school Samantha attends. In the book series it is located in Mount Bedford and a well-to-do private academy; in the movie, it is located in New York City and requires the girls all wear uniforms of dark plaid dresses with dark blue neckties, black shoes and stockings, white pinafores, and boater hats.
[edit] Mount Bedford
Mount Bedford is a small, fictional town located on the Hudson river.
[edit] Mount Bedford Home
The Mount Bedford home is where Samantha and Grandmary live.
[edit] Butlers' Pantry
A small utility room off the kitchen (by definition), and generally used by the servants such as Hawkins.
[edit] Carriage House
Storage house for the carriage.
[edit] Kitchen
The kitchen is on the first floor, and where Mrs. Hawkins works (and, for Samantha, can always be found). Samantha thinks of the kitchen as a warm place full of the smells of Mrs. Hawkins' cooking.
[edit] Parlor
The parlor is where Grandmary and Samantha have their daily sewing hour. It is also where guests come calling and visiting; it is near the front of the house and the front walk can be seen from it.
[edit] Samantha's Room
Samantha's room is on the second floor.
[edit] Sewing Room
The sewing room is on the third floor at the end of the hall, where Jessie works.
[edit] Tunnel
The tunnel is a hole in the lilac hedge between Samantha's home and the home of Eddie Ryland.
[edit] Mount Bedford Public Library
The library in Mount Bedford. Samantha suggests holding a talent show to raise money to help repair it in Samantha's Special Talent.
[edit] Mount Bedford Public School
The school Nellie, Jenny, and Bridget attends before their parents' deaths. Eddie Ryland also attends this school.
[edit] New York City Home
Cornelia and Gardner Edwards's home in New York City. Samantha later moves in with them.
[edit] Park (Mount Bedford)
A park in Mount Bedford (Illustrations name it Jackson Park). It has a lake and a bicycling path alongside the lake.
[edit] Piney Point
A camping area that has Grandmary's summer home. Located in the mountains.
[edit] Settlement House
A large gray building near the East River in New York City. The person in charge is Miss Brennan. The settlement house is a place for new immigrants to learn skills for American life as well as share their cultures; it offers a variety of classes (such as dance, carpentry, art, and cooking) as well as a kindergarten for younger children. Nellie O'Malley used to go there frequently with her sisters and later takes Cornelia and Samantha with her.
[edit] Seventeenth Street
- (17th Street)
A very big, busy and broad street in New York City. Nellie uses the street to make her way to the settlement house. It is described as a very crowded street of hundreds of people and clogged with pushcarts that Nellie has to push through to make her way to the settlement house.
[edit] Ryland Home
Eddie Ryland and his mother Mrs. Ryland live next door to Grandmary and Samantha.
[edit] Schofield's Toy Store
A toy store in Mount Bedford. Samantha first sees a doll in the window in Meet Samantha, which she gives away to Nellie. In Samantha's Surprise, she sees another doll she later receives from Cornelia.
