Daily schedules and diaries, 1911-1953.

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Daily schedules and diaries, 1911-1953.

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Annual volumes (boxes 1-4) for 1911-1951, with gaps, record daily work at the State Farm at Bridgewater, Mass., as led by named farm officers and conducted by gangs of prisoners or defective delinquent gangs. Indicates absences for sickness, holiday, or other. Additional annual volumes (boxes 5-6) for some years function as diaries containing brief daily narratives of activities, weather, and prison or personnel events. The 1924-1930 volumes, kept by Charles O. Bearse (a farm supervisor from 1910, wife Henrietta (Etta) was a matron), also list personal and family activities such as visits and car trips; 1927-1930 volume lists expenses for horses, fertilizer, and pesticides, also payments or trades made for various personal items including cars, radios, and sewing machines.

7.25 cubic ft. (6 record center cartons)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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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...