State Almshouse/State Workhouse admission/discharge register, 1854-1877.

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State Almshouse/State Workhouse admission/discharge register, 1854-1877.

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Series documents admission and discharge of inmates from the founding of the almshouse until after the founding of the State Workhouse, which after 1872 also provided for former almshouse inmates and other paupers.

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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 Workhouse (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...