Posted on Jul 20, 2017
Johnson County's Poor Farm :: Album, the Newsletter of the Johnson County Museum
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Great History Lesson on KCUR Central Standard Today about Poor Farms. Johnson County, KS was at 119th St and Ridgeview
Johnson County's Poor Farm :: Album, the Newsletter of the Johnson County Museum
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Posted 7 y ago
I think every county probably had one of these farms, I use to down the road from the one in Van Buren County, Mi. it had been closed for quite a few years. Maybe they need to reactivate these sort of farms again.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth In the Midwest they were very common. Ohio had one in Every County. Texas and California they were less of a thing.
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