- A
poorhouse or
workhouse is a government-run (usually by a
county or muni****lity)
facility to
support and
provide housing for the
dependent or needy...
- "
Poorhouse Rock" is the twenty-second and
final episode of the thirty-third
season of the
American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 728th...
-
Scottish poorhouse,
occasionally referred to as a workhouse,
provided accommodation for the
destitute and poor in Scotland. The term
poorhouse was almost...
- The
Fairfield County Infirmary, also
known as the
Fairfield County Poorhouse or
Clarence E.
Miller Building, is a
historic site in Lancaster, Ohio. The...
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towns across Scotland,
Aberdeen and its twin city of Old
Aberdeen had
poorhouses to
complement the
provision for the poor and need
provided by the church...
- the Cook
County Board of
Commissioners to be the site of Chicago's new
Poorhouse and
Insane Asylum.
Often referred to as the
County Poor Farm, the institution...
- The
Poorhouse Fair (1959) was the
first novel by the
American author John Up****. A
second edition (New York : Knopf, 1977)
included an
introduction by...
- The Cook
County Poor Farm (also
known as the
Dunning Poorhouse and
Insane Asylum) was a
public institution established by the Cook
County Board of Commissioners...
- The
Petropavlovskaya Poorhouse (Russian: Петропавловская богадельня) was a
poorhouse in Rostov-on-Don
constructed in the 1860s.
Andrey Matveyevich Baykov [ru]...
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attempt was made to open a
poorhouse on the site,
resulting in the
destruction of the
Great Chamber around 1700. This
poorhouse failed too, and in 1729 a...
