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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. | 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. | ||
