Conceived as an inexpensive way for county governments to provide care for the indigent, these poor farms attracted residents including orphans to the elderly, disabled and disaster victims. Nearly ...
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a $28,948 proposal from CertaPro Painters to restore and repaint the Livestock Barn at the Historic Poor Farm during the board’s formal ...
For nearly a decade, Johnson County’s Historic Poor Farm has focused on upgrades to make their site a reliable source of food production, agriculture education, and history education. Now, the ...
It was a quiet afternoon with gray skies that threatened rain when I stepped into the Jackson County Poor Farm Cemetery. Located just outside of Black River Falls along County Highway P are the ...
Last month’s “In Retrospect” column reflected on the Iris Fields ballpark at 16th Street and Iris Avenue in Boulder. Located on a parcel of land owned for more than a century by Boulder County, the ...
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What was life like on Minnesota’s ‘poor farms’?
Listen and subscribe to our Curious Minnesota podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify A century ago, before the federal government provided social services, most of Minnesota’s counties ran poor farms to ...
Clark County established its Poor Farm in 1873 on a portion of the former Anderson Donation Land Claim (along present-day Northeast 78th Street). Its goal was to help reintegrate its residents into ...
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