"In Stephenson County, Illinois there was a poorhouse, or as it was called there, the Poor Farm, on the south of town. It apparently was a working farm, for the people that lived there grew food for the institution. The building is still there, a beautiful very old stone building, which has since been made into a museum. There is also a row of plain white gravestones on the Highway 26, nearby, which I understand is where the inmates were buried."
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