Washington County Poorhouse records, 1883-1964.

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Washington County Poorhouse records, 1883-1964.

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Washington County Poorhouse Records contain financial records, 1939-1968; visitors' registers, 1883-1905, 1925-1945; inventories of clothing and personal effects, 1941-1948; nurses' reports, doctors' order books, and other medical records, 1941-1958; Physician's' Daily Register of Hospital Patients, 1938-1943; payroll records, 1949-1958; death records filed with the New York State Department of Health, 1952-1958; applications for public assistance, 1952-1958; admission/discharge books, 1933-1937, 1940-1941, 1946-1949, 1952, 1954-1962; Index to Record of Inmates, n.d.; farm records, 1937-1964; transients' records, 1938-1949; trucking expenses, 1940-1943. There are also inventories of personal property, farm stock, 1884-1915, 1941-1943, and records concerning the Valley Nursing Home, two miles south of the village of Argyle, N.Y.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6868259

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Albany Orphan Asylum

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New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum

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Pleasant Valley Infirmary.

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Washington County (N.Y.). Superintendent of the Poor.

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Washington County (N.Y.). Poorhouse.

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The Washington County Poorhouse was built in 1827 in Argyle, N.Y., on the present site of the Pleasant Valley Infirmary. It was also known, in later years, by various other names such as the Almshouse, the County Farm, the Washington County Home, and the Pleasant Valley Infirmary. From the description of Washington County Poorhouse records, 1883-1964. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155434867 ...