Kaufman
County Poor Farm
| Marker
Number: |
11988 |
| Marker
Title: |
Kaufman County Poor Farm |
| Index
Entry: |
Kaufman County Poor Farm |
| Address: |
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| City: |
Kaufman |
| County: |
Kaufman |
| UTM
Zone: |
14 |
| UTM
Easting: |
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| UTM
Northing: |
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| Subject
Codes: |
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| Year
Marker Erected: |
1997 |
| Designations: |
na |
| Marker
Location: |
SH 34, 1.5 mi S of Kaufman |
| Marker
Size: |
18" x 28" |
| Repairs
Completed: |
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| Marker
Text: |
As did many Texas counties of the era,
Kaufman County created a poor farm in 1883 in orderr to provide
the indigent residents and faamilies 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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