Carrie Steele Logan, born into slavery and orphaned as a child, worked as a maid at Union Station in Atlanta. Moved by the plight of abandoned children she encountered, she began caring for them in her small home. Realizing she needed more space, Steele wrote and sold her autobiography to raise funds. In 1888, she secured a charter for the Carrie Steele Orphans' Home and eventually raised enough money to build a three-story brick orphanage, which was dedicated in 1892. founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States. It became the oldest Black orphanage in the United States, funded entirely through her efforts. Her epitaph reads, “The mother of orphans". Logan was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement in 1998.