State Workhouse/State Farm special appropriation accounts, 1883-1887, 1908-1947.

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State Workhouse/State Farm special appropriation accounts, 1883-1887, 1908-1947.

Series tracks funds expended for various projects and activities at the State Workhouse and later at the State Farm, financed by specific appropriations of the state legislature. These usually are for building projects or various capital improvements, such as the power plant, water systems, purchase of cows, etc.

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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 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...

Massachusetts. State Workhouse (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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