How a 1950s debate over Cape Girardeau County’s costly poor farm ended with its closure and the land’s transformation into ...
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 ...
Visitors find a unique blend of history and future at the Johnson County Historic Poor Farm, which is in the midst of a ...
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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 ...
Those who visit The Old Poor Farm can get a unique history lesson. The farm, situated near Nickerson, got its start in the 1800s. It began when, in 1872, Dodge County purchased 160 acres of land. A ...
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