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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. State Almshouse (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Massachusetts. State Farm (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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1852, c 275 provided for the establishment of three institutions (by 1854 called state almshouses) to receive, from cities and towns, paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth who were supported at public expense. St 1853, c 352 designated one of these as the State Almshouse at Bridgewater, which opened May 1, 1854. It soon received what were later termed the more willingly and needlessly dependent (Trustees of the State Farm at Bridgewater. Annual report, 1903 (PD 24: Oct l903...

Massachusetts. State Workhouse (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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