For nearly a decade, Johnson County’s Historic Poor Farm has focused on upgrades to make their site a reliable source of food production, agriculture education, and history education. Now, the ...

SLAYTON — The Murray County Historical Society invites the public to attend its January Lunchbox Lecture at noon Thursday, ...

On Thursday, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $24,671 change order for the ongoing Historic Poor Farm Kitchen renovation project. The Historic Poor Farm opened its doors ...

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 ...

In April of 1857, a commission was appointed by the county court to establish a poor farm in Benton County. Samuel Woods, James Jackson and Dysart Woods were charged with finding a location, and a sum ...

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 ...

BLOOMINGTON - "Be careful or you'll end up at the poor farm" was a popular admonition well into the mid-20th century. From the early 1860s until the 1950s, the McLean County Poor Farm, located about ...

Clark County established its Poor Farm in 1873 on a portion of the former Anderson Donation Land Claim (along present-day Northeast 78th Street). Its goal was to help reintegrate its residents into ...

For years, using every genealogy trick she could think of, Teri Suiter searched for evidence of a Milton area cemetery at which she believed her great grandmother had been buried. The difficulty she ...

A century ago, before the federal government provided social services, most of Minnesota’s counties ran poor farms to house their most impoverished inhabitants. Some residents who were young and ...