Finding the Lost Residents of the Poor Farm

Finding the Lost Residents of the Poor Farm

BEFORE THERE was food stamps and welfare, there were poor farms.  People with mental and physical disabilities, those without financial or familial support, or those who were unable to work stayed on publicly owned properties. They maintained them as they would...

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