While poor farms in other states earned a bad reputation for ill treatment of inmates, the people at the Dodge County farm were like a family. Inmates who could help did what they could.

The Poor Farm operated until 1942, and in 1943 it was purchased for $5,000 by a private owner, William Robison. The Robisons turned the place briefly into the Durango Chick Hatchery and Farm.

Many adult poor farm residents suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, the physically infirm and the elderly. Others were in dire straits due to the loss of one or both breadwinners.

Poor farms usually operated as working farms, providing a cost-effective way to care for several individuals. The Southern Oregon Historical Society holds some of the poor farm ledgers from early ...

At last, I have reached the “Poor House,” known as the “Poor Farm.” The latter does not jar quite as harshly on one’s ear as the first. Manifestly, he who ...

The first cottages built to house the inmates at the Poor Farm had, according to records, “iron cages and 7-foot-high fences to keep the inmates in." The farm was no utopian haven or sanctuary in ...

Poor Farm Cemetery and Vibrant Farms. Season 15 Episode 3 | 26m 55s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Learn how dedicated volunteers are working to preserve and maintain the Otter Tail County Poor ...

Poor farms were part of life in many parts of Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century, but remnants of them are had to find today. Skip to main content Skip to main content. You ...

By 1924 the Poor Farm's orchard was one of the finest in the county, enabling Callie M. Jones, wife of Superintendent Arthur Jones, to can 700 quarts of peaches.

The “Poor Farm Palooza Fundraiser Online Silent Auction” is the Wood County Historical Society’s largest fundraising effort.

Dodge County-owned poor farm items were sold at public auction in 1940 and the farmland and homestead sold 15 years later. The original house was torn down in the 1970s.