http://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=atom&hideredirs=1&limit=50&offset=&namespace=0&username=&tagfilter=&size-mode=max&size=0Asylum Projects - New pages [en]2024-03-29T11:24:11ZFrom Asylum ProjectsMediaWiki 1.30.0http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Livingston_County_HouseLivingston County House2024-02-22T02:13:01Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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*Livingston County Poorhouse<br />
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==History==<br />
The Livingston County House was established in 1829. The first Livingston County poorhouse is believed to have been located on the south side of Route 20a. Gradually as the population of the county increased, the original poorhouse became inadequate to accommodate the growing number of impoverished residents.”<ref>William G. Pomeroy Foundation, 2020</ref> This establishment has been around for nearly 195 years. Throughout the years this place has had multiple transitions. Originally, Livingston was used for housing for the elderly, orphans, the mentally ill individuals, and for anyone who was not able to work. The building, Livingston, was structured in different sections. On the lower level there was an education section and a wash hose and shoe shop. Then, on the next floor above there was an asylum for women who dealt with mental illness. <br />
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Throughout the lifetime of Livingston, it held a cemetery of hundreds of deceased people, of whom mainly had unmarked graves, until a law was passed that made marking graves as a requirement. During 1868 there was a fire that occurred in the poor house. The building completely burned down. After the fire Livingston continued to expand their farmland, which produced “livestock, crops, and fruit trees.''<ref>Poorhouse / County Home | Livingston County, NY - Official Website, 2018</ref> By 1925, Livingston was producing eggs and butter for sale. Livingston continued to grow and thrive as they increased their acres of farmland. In 1989, “The three brick buildings were sold and the center building was remodeled to operate as the Oak Valley Inn”<ref><Poorhouse / County Home | Livingston County, NY - Official Website, 2018</ref><br />
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*[https://www.livingstoncounty.us/1299/Poorhouse Livingston County, NY. (2018). Poorhouse/County Home - Official Website.]<br />
*[https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/county-poorhouse/ William G. Pomeroy Foundation.]<br />
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[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>108.162.242.47http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Fulton_County_HouseFulton County House2024-02-22T00:44:26Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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==History==<br />
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The Fulton County Poor House was founded in 1857. There were about 70 people there and ten of them were ‘insane’. The Poor House was not set up for the care of people with mental illness. It did not function well. People did not have work to do and there was no medical care. The Fulton County Poor House had no children, and it was smaller than other poor houses. <br />
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The building was of brick, two stories high, with ceilings of nine feet, the rooms 18 x 50, with windows 4 x 2 1/2 feet. All the rooms have bedsteads in them; the bedding is of straw, and none sleep on straw only. There was no arrangement for ventilation or the uniformity of heat in the winter. The diet provided was simple but nutritious. Everyone was are required to wash their hands and face daily.<ref>(lsstuhler, 2013).</ref><br />
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*[https://www.fultoncountyny.gov/brief-history-fulton-county https://www.fultoncountyny.gov/brief-history-fulton-county]<br />
*[https://inmatesofwillard.com/2013/09/19/1864-fulton-county-poor-house/ https://inmatesofwillard.com/2013/09/19/1864-fulton-county-poor-house/]<br />
*[https://www.fulton.nygenweb.net/history/index.html https://www.fulton.nygenweb.net/history/index.html]<br />
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[[Category:County Almshouse]]</div>172.70.115.171http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Erie_County_HomeErie County Home2024-02-21T03:12:58Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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==History==<br />
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The Erie County Poorhouse was founded in 1851 as a solution to the increasing impoverishment issue in Buffalo, New York. It was moved from its original Black Rock location to Main Street, where it is currently located on the State University of Buffalo's South Campus. There are two structures: one serves as the actual poor home, while the other is meant to house the insane. The main structure is octagonal in design and stands 65 feet in front, with wings that reach 225 feet. A 153-acre farm that generates $2,700 in revenue is attached. There are thirty-four rooms in the poorhouse. The Erie County Poorhouse of Buffalo, NY, and succeeding institutions known as the Erie County Alms House, Erie County Hospital, and Erie County Home & Infirmary, operated as a social safety net for the region's poor and ill.<ref>https://buffaloah.com/a/ub/hist/hist.html#:~:text=Established%20in%20response%20to%20the,the%20State%20University%20of%20Buffalo.</ref><br />
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[[Category:County Almshouse]]</div>172.70.110.209http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Yates_County_PoorhouseYates County Poorhouse2024-02-19T20:35:32Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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==History==<br />
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In 1824 the State Legislature passed an act which made a general provision for the maintenance of the poor of the several counties of the State and under this law the supervisors of the county took the initial steps toward the establishment of a county infirmary. The matter was under discussion early in October 1829 at which time the supervisors filed with the clerk a certificate that read as follows: "In compliance with the tenth section of an act passed the 27th of November, 1824, relative to County Poor-Houses, we hereby determine that it will benefit the county of Yates to erect a county poor-house therein. "Given under our hands this 10th day of October, 1829. "Jonathan Whittaker, George Youngs, Clarkson Martin, Alfred Brown, Asher Spicer, James Christie, Abraham Maxfield." Thereafter the supervisors of the county agreed upon the purchase of lands for poor house purposes. The deed was executed on April 14, 1830, by Alfred Brown of Jerusalem, to the superintendents of the poor of Yates County, Elijah Spencer, Joel Dorman, Jabez French, John Warner, and James C. Robinson, whereby in consideration of the sum of $1,200 the grantor conveyed to the grantees, or their successors in office or legal representatives, 125 acres of land in the town of Jerusalem. This is the same tract of land now in part used by the county as a poor house farm. The Yates County poor house and its management have at times been the subjects of much discussion and no little anxiety on the part of the supervisors, the press, and the people of the county as well. There have been charges of corruption and extravagance which may not have been wholly groundless. It was during the period extending from 1855 to 1860 that the subject was uppermost in the public and official mind, but eventually, the matter was adjusted or settled and affairs resumed their usual quiet state. From that to the present time there has been no serious disturbance concerning the county's poor house management.<ref>[https://inmatesofwillard.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/washington-wayne-westchester-wyoming-yates-counties-1883.pdf https://inmatesofwillard.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/washington-wayne-westchester-wyoming-yates-counties-1883.pdf]</ref><ref>https://genealogytrails.com/ny/yates/countyhistory.html <br />
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In June 1922, a fire destroyed the nearly fifty-year-old institution.<br />
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*[https://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/ny-genealogy/yates-county/1865_jerusalem_new_york_state_census_poor_house_enumeration.htm 1865 Census of the Yates County Poorhouse]<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>108.162.241.203http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Columbia_County_HouseColumbia County House2024-02-19T18:37:21Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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“It is a sad spectacle to humanity, that which is revealed in the condition of the insane paupers of Columbia county. There are at the poor house one hundred and twenty-seven inmates, twenty-seven of whom are lunatics. They have been admitted to the poor house at various periods since 1840. Sixteen are males and eleven are females. Twenty-one cases are mild in character. Twenty-six are noted as filthy! Only two have ever been treated in an asylum. Eight males and three females are capable of doing some labor. Others have no amusement provided for them. Five require occasional restraint. There is an inadequate supply of water; there is no bath tub; the lunatics are not required to wash hands and face daily. Cleanliness, ventilation and uniformity of heat in winter are not observed to any particular degree. The rooms have not bedsteads in all of them. Twelve sleep on straw without bedsteads. The straw is changed once or twice a week. The building is heated by coal “poorly applied.” Mild cases are put with the sane paupers. There are no accommodations for the various grades of the insane. One assistant keeper is aided by the sane paupers in the care of lunatics. The atmosphere in the rooms was very impure and unhealthy. The county takes recent cases. Several were admitted in 1863 and 1864. The females have a change of under garments every week; the males none. None had had stockings during the winter; all had shoes. There is no convenience for out of door exercise. No provision is made for medical treatment; they do not receive any medical attendance at all, nor care of any sort with reference to ultimate recovery. Confirmed lunacy and hopeless idiocy is the fate that threatens the unfortunate who passes this threshold.”<ref>[https://inmatesofwillard.com/2013/09/19/1864-columbia-county-poor-house/ https://inmatesofwillard.com/2013/09/19/1864-columbia-county-poor-house/]</ref><br />
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[[Category:County Almshouse]]</div>172.70.127.128http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/St._Lawrence_County_Alms_HouseSt. Lawrence County Alms House2024-02-19T18:04:56Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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==History==<br />
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The St. Lawrence County Poorhouse, Almshouse or County Home as it was referred to was completed in 1869, and was located two miles downstream from Canton, NY, toward Ogdensburg, on a prominent piece of Grasse River frontage. The County Home was built in response to the County Poorhouse Act passed by New York State legislature in 1824. The home was a place where the less fortunate could seek refuge, even if only for a night. It was built to accommodate up to 300 residents (or what were then called ‘’inmates’’) at a time. Like all almshouses in New York in the 19th and 20th centuries, it was funded by taxpayers and managed by the county government. The Home was heated, clean, well aerated, and had an infirmary as well as a separate area for the insane. However, St. Lawrence County Almshouse officials were negligent in initiating the required admission forms for each inmate as there are many that are missing. Those seeking refuge in the home were either ‘indigent,’ ‘poor,’ ‘sick,’ ‘feeble minded,’ or insane. Immigrant men, women, and children as well as those from the local area found their way to the home. Immigrant residents were from a variety of places including Canada, Mexico, Ireland, and Austria. <br />
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For over 100 years more than 2000 residents made use of the home, and over 700 found their final resting place within the home’s cemetery. 500+ of these graves are unmarked and are in danger of being eroded by the Grasse River. The grave markers likely did not stand the test of time as they were often made from wood, because the County did not have the financial resources to put a tombstone on every grave. The building itself was destroyed in 1978, taking with it the voices of many of St. Lawrence County’s most vulnerable residents. <ref>[https://www.dslc.info/content/st-lawrence-county-poorhouse St. Lawrence County poorhouse. St. Lawrence County Poorhouse, Death in St. Lawrence County Project.]</ref><ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2632764/saint-lawrence-county-alms-house-cemetery Saint Lawrence County alms house cemetery in Canton, New York - find a grave cemetery. Find a Grave.]</ref><ref>[https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/29078/20150806/forgotten-graves-at-the-county-home-cemetery Baird, R. (2015, August 6). Forgotten graves at the County Home Cemetery. NCPR.]</ref><ref>[https://historicallylewis.org/places/the-lewis-county-almshouse/ Aubel, M. (2022, January 7). The Lewis County Almshouse. Historically Lewis.]</ref><br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>172.70.110.209http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Putnam_County_Poor_HousePutnam County Poor House2024-02-19T15:16:21Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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==History==<br />
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The Putnam County Poor House was open from 1894-1961. The poor house and farm laid across 150 acres of land located on Country Farm Road. It had barns and buildings that not only housed the inmates, but housed the manager and his family at the time. There was no electricity on the farms, and for water, they had to use a hydraulic ram. Some of the jobs that were done there included wheat thrashing and butchering animals for materials. Eventually a screen room was added by Oakley and Lawrence Chaffin to confine mentally disturbed people. Life in any poor house was not great and people died on the farms and in the poor house. It was common enough that they had homemade coffins and when someone passed, they would take them to the cemetery on the farm and bury them. This land now, has been cultivated and the cemetery no longer is there. <br />
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Aside from the structure of the farm, it was controlled by the County Court which was made up of one justice of the peace from each district. The justice of the peace is now known as the County Commissioner. At one point in the history of the poor house, someone named Bill Rippletoe was the manager. During his time there, a little boy showed up at the farm looking to work there. Rippletoe and his wife felt so bad that they ended up adopting the boy. Alvin Palk was another manager, after Rippletoe who left the farm and came back until the early nineteen fifties. Then, the county court decided to close the county home and move the patients into a nursing home. After these patients were moved, Putnam County hired a county health doctor to check out the people that were at the county home and to vaccinate the school children of the county. After the county home finally closed, Willow Avenue Church of Christ leased the property for Happy Haven Home for children. <ref>[HTTP://www.ajlambert.com/history/hst_cfph.pdf Hunter, Charlie. The County Farm Poor House]</ref><br />
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[[Category:County Almshouse]]</div>162.158.154.152http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Orleans_County_Poor_HouseOrleans County Poor House2024-02-17T17:40:54Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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The Orleans County poorhouse was located on West County House Road in the town of Albion. It was a three-story building built in 1876. It accommodated 140 people. It also had living quarters for the caretakers and supervisors who lived on site. The poor houses supervisor was Journal E. Salisbury, his salary for this position was $1,300. It was an elected position. It was considered a great service to care for these people. Today there is a cemetery to commemorate the people that lived and died in the workhouse.<br />
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[[Category:County Almshouse]]</div>172.69.7.180http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Genesee_County_Poor_HouseGenesee County Poor House2024-02-16T03:00:29Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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==History==<br />
An act to provide for the establishment of county poorhouses was passed in Albany in 1824. On December 4, 1826 the Genesee County Board of Supervisors met in Bethany for the purpose of establishing a County Poorhouse. A brick building, originally a stagecoach tavern, located near the corner of the Bethany Center Road and Raymond Road was the site selected, as it represented the geographical center of the county. (Wyoming County wasn’t established until 1841.) The following official announcement, dated December 9, 1826, appeared in an issue of the Batavia Times newspaper:<br />
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“Notice is hereby given that the Genesee County Poorhouse will be ready for the reception of paupers on the first day of January 1827 … The Overseers of the Poor of the several towns of the County of Genesee are requested, in all cases of removal of paupers to the county poorhouse, to send with them their clothing, beds, bedding and such other articles belonging to the paupers as may be necessary and useful to them.”<br />
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The following were eligible for assistance: habitual drunkards, lunatics (one who by disease, grief or accident lost the use of reason or from old age, sickness or weakness was so weak of mind as to be incapable of governing or managing their affairs), paupers (a person with no means of income), state paupers (one who is blind, lame, old or disabled with no income source) or a vagrant.<br />
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Causes of pauperism are listed and in 1867 the Superintendent of the Poor reported that of the 1,018 poor, 706 had become paupers by intemperance (excessive drinking of alcoholic liquor). Another document noted that a man had died leaving behind a widow and fatherless children and with no means of support the mother and children become residents of the County Home.<br />
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In 1828 the County constructed a stone building attached to the Poorhouse for the confinement of lunatics and a repository for paupers committed for misconduct. The insane were also housed at the County Home until 1887 when the Board of Supervisors agreed to send “persons suffering with acute insanity to the Buffalo State Asylum and cases of violent, chronic insanity to Willard.<br />
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A list of those who died while living in the County Home was recently complied by the History Department staff. Information was found in the Registration Books, the list of coffins purchased, mortuary listings and reports from the Superintendents of the Poor to the County Board of Supervisors. Information on the cemetery located at the County Home is almost nonexistent. The 1886 Proceedings stated “The burying ground we have improved by building a fence in front and grading and leveling the ground as much as could be done without injury to the graves.” An actual cemetery register or plot map has yet to be discovered. The County did bury those who had no family to care for the dead and the receipts provide us only with clues.<br />
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Occasionally an obituary will include information regarding an individual who once resided and died at the County Home. Phebe White has the distinction of being an inmate for 58 years, having entered the County Home at the age of 9 in 1828, shortly after it opened. She was listed as idiotic and at the age of 49 became blind. Phebe was one of the first recipients of the care and protection provided by the County Home. The Superintendent of the Poor estimated her total care cost the county $7,000. The 1871 Proceedings listed 146 persons had been provided for at a cost to keep each at $1.08 per week per resident. The County Home included a working farm and woods which provided food and fuel, therefore the actual cost to care these individuals was low.<br />
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A memorial site was created in the Genesee County Park and on June 6, 2004 the Genesee County Historians dedicated a historical marker honoring those who died while living in the County Home from 1827 until 1974 when the facility was closed and relocated to Batavia. In addition to the bronze plaque marker there are five headstones which were returned last fall to the County by Lori Carlson, the current property owner of the former County Poorhouse. These stones date from 1887 to 1888 and the History Department staff was able to find the receipts for the stones which indicated the County purchased them for $5.00 each. The reason they were never used is unknown. The cemetery for the County Poorhouse has faded away as the stones crumpled, the grass grew and the forest replanted. No one was around to care for those who had so long ago been forgotten. These people, though they were poor, ill and sometime abandoned, do deserve to be remembered. <ref>[https://www.co.genesee.ny.us/departments/history/county_home_poorhouse_history.html https://www.co.genesee.ny.us/departments/history/county_home_poorhouse_history.html]</ref><br />
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[[Category:Closed Institution]]</div>172.70.230.116http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Niagara_County_Poor_HouseNiagara County Poor House2024-02-12T21:23:58Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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[[Category:County Almshouse]]</div>172.69.214.110http://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Queen_Mary_HospitalQueen Mary Hospital2024-01-15T22:52:09Z<p>M-Explorer: </p>
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==History==<br />
Queen Mary Hospital was located in Hanmer Springs, New Zealand. The setting was near the hot pools in an alpine setting an hour and a half drive from the South Island's main city, Christchurch. The hot springs had been used by Maori for years before being discovered by a European settler in 1859 and opened to the public in 1883. The sanatorium was built in 1897. During the First World War it was replaced by the Queen Mary Hospital for Sick and Wounded Soldiers. The building was destroyed by fire in 1914 and a new building constructed. It accommodated up to 200 WWI servicemen returning to NZ who needed rehabilitation for mental and nervous conditions. <br />
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In 1922 the military gave control over the facility to the Department of Health and it was rebranded the Queen Mary Hospital. It treated mainly mental health disorders in the 1920s to 1960s, and in the 1970s it became the national specialist addiction and alcohol treatment centre. The hospital closed in 2003.<br />
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<div>The following is an archive of past featured images from 2024 and the dates they were featured: <br />
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==2024==<br />
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===January===<br />
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File:OsawatomiePC.JPG|7 January 2024 [[Osawatomie State Hospital]]<br />
File:Kenilworth3.png|14 January 2024 [[Kenilworth Sanitarium]]<br />
File:SCAN0283a.jpg|21 January 2024 [[Kingston Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
File:Gladesville Mental Hospital Gate cottage Victoria Road.jpg|28 January 2024 [[Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum]]<br />
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===February===<br />
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File:bayviewMD001.jpg|4 February 2024 [[Bayview Hospital and Asylum]]<br />
File:TerrellPD2.JPG|11 February 2024 [[Terrell State Hospital]]<br />
File:SCmills.png|18 February 2024 [[South Carolina State Hospital]]<br />
File:topekaKS007.jpg|25 February 2024 [[Topeka State Hospital]]<br />
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===March===<br />
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File:FlatbushKirkPC.JPG|3 March 2024 [[Brooklyn State Hospital]]<br />
File:MEaugusta main2.png|10 March 2024 [[Augusta State Hospital]]<br />
File:palmerinfirm.png|17 March 2024 [[Monson Developmental Center]]<br />
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