State Workhouse/State Farm expense journals, 1886-1911.

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State Workhouse/State Farm expense journals, 1886-1911.

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Series consists of dated listings of amounts paid to various companies or individuals by the State Workhouse/State Farm at Bridgewater, Mass., for described expenses, including railroad passage, doctor and medical supplies, soap, clothing, food, tools, barber supplies, medical treatment and supplies, books and newspapers, farm animals and supplies, hay, furniture, telephones, costs of retrieving escaped prisoners, and others. See also: State Almshouse/State Workhouse expense journal, 1854-1883 ((M-Ar)2526X)

2.5 cubic ft. (22 v. in 2 record center cartons)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. State Asylum for Insane Criminals (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Massachusetts. State Farm (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Bridgewater, Mass., was the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887), for paupers convicted of misdemeanors as well as paupers generally (from 1872), and incorrigible juveniles (1869-1948). The State Workhouse was renamed the State Farm (1887-1955), which also included a State Farm Hospital for the medical needs of all inmates, as well as locals and poor admitted solely for medical treatment. Th...

Bridgewater State Hospital (Mass.)

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The State Asylum for Insane Criminals was established in Massachusetts in 1895 at the State Workhouse in Bridgewater. Under the workhouse's successor, the State Farm (from 1887), the asylum was renamed Bridgewater State Hospital in 1909. In 1919 the State Farm, including the State Hospital, was transferred from the State Board of Charity to the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons (later Dept. of Correction), although as of 1923 the Dept. of Mental Diseases (later Dept. of Mental Health) retained the...

Massachusetts. State Workhouse (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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