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 ...

Mount Pleasant's PBS station, WCMU-TV, is airing two special broadcasts of the Leelanau County Historical Preservation Society's new documentary on its efforts to save the historical Poor Farm Barn.

CEDAR — For a long time, the poor house was a farm. The Leelanau County Poor Farm served the county’s indigent citizens between 1906 and the 1960s before government social safety nets existed.

One of the few remaining traces of Minnesota’s poor farm era still rises above the landscape in Maplewood — a towering red ...

Dear Action Line: Years ago, a city employee told me that the old, brick building at 13 Bacus was once the county “Poor House.” It looks like it’s apartments now. Do you know the history of the ...

The Johnson County Historical Poor Farm, which opened in 1855, is in the process of undergoing a five-year project to restore the last buildings left standing on the property. To help turn the Poor ...

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 enters here leaves hope behind. He is not ...

Pine View, the county-owned nursing home, is up for sale. Let's take a look back to Pine View's beginning as the Poor Farm. The Poor Farm was established in 1870. Its upkeep was paid for by Jackson ...

The year was 1830, and the New York State Legislature passed a bill that was intended to find a resolution to an increasing problem with care of the poor. In the period that this law was enacted, the ...

Located just 3.5 miles from downtown Martinsburg, the 200-plus-acre Poor House Farm is among Berkeley County’s most popular parks, extending up a ridge with hiking and biking trails. The trail system ...