The difficulty she encountered was largely due to the fact that the cemetery had been utilized to bury those who died while ...

It was inscribed with, “Here lies remains known only to God, Brentwood Poor Farm, circa 1841 – 1868”. Photo by Robbin Ray/University of New Hampshire Skeletal remains — once buried in an ...

Delegates attending this week’s Teagasc and CAFRE Uplands Symposium were told that a failure to address farm viability in ...

Each farm varied depending on needs and resources, as did its treatment of residents. Some poor farms provided a safe haven for those in need while others operated more like prisons. In 1868 ...

I did some research which painted an all too vivid picture. The Sauk County Poor Farm and Insane Asylum near Reedsburg was established in 1871, had a capacity of 100, and cared for the poor and ...