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Postcard with a photograph of the 
Beaver City Poor Farm
  [FURNAS County] -- early 1900s


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The Nebraska excerpt from a U.S. Government Report
summarizing various state poor laws in 1904. .


"Homes of the Poor"

Omaha World Herald, October, 1920 article reprinted in the "History of Hamilton and Clay Counties Nebraska", 1921


Poor farm references
from a search of the on-line publication of :
HISTORY of the State of Nebraska, 1882


Excerpts
sent in by readers.


Online Records
found on this and other sites.


Notes and Queries
from readers.


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Special Thanks go to Linda Crannell for donating her Nebraska Poorhouse information to this site.
For general poorhouse information, you may want to visit the Poorhouse Story Website.


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