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 Kaufman County Poor Farm
N 32° 33.973 W 096° 19.085
14S E 751791 N 3606372
Texas Historical Marker at the remains of the Kaufman County Poor Farm, noting its establishment and history, all the way into the 1970s.
Waymark Code: WMNQ8C
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/17/2015
Views: 4
Marker Number: 11988
Marker Text:
As did many Texas counties of the era, Kaufman County created a poor farm in 1883 in order to provide the indigent residents and families of the area with food, shelter, and medicine. This work program replaced earlier relief efforts. All able-bodied persons were required to work, including resident guards and county inmates convicted of minor crimes who were originally brought from the jail daily for labor; by 1893 they were housed on the farm. In the 1930s the farm was used to demonstrate new agricultural techniques. Usually filled to capacity, the farm operated until the 1970s. By 1997, a cemetery and a few buildings remained. (1997)
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