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Item 34819

City Farm (Poor Farm), Biddeford, ca. 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford; Biddeford Media: Postcard

Item 51582

Poor Farm, Saco 1924

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1924 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 36598

City Farm, Biddeford, ca. 1935

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls

George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.

Exhibit

Cottage for women, Maine State Sanatorium, Hebron, ca. 1909

Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

Exhibit

Al Nutting inspecting Norway pine, Troy, ca. 1950

The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest

Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.

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Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"Poor Farm City "Poor" Farm, Poor Farm Road, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner In a Mayor's Address from…"

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Portland Overseers of the Poor letter regarding Jesse Estes and family, 1825

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… the local town farm was established, giving the poor a place to reside, work the land and contribute to their own upkeep."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"By the summer of 2000, the Skyline Farm organization and the Sowles family arranged a purchase with a conservation easement through the Royal River…"