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Washington County Poor Farm Cemetery

Also known as County Home Cemetery , Poor Farm Cemetery , Salem Poor Farm Cemetery

Salem, Washington County, Indiana, USA

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  • Get directions 1650 County Farm Home Road
    Salem, Indiana 47167 United States
    Coordinates: 38.57810, -86.01930
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The cemetery is located near the Washington County Home for the Indigent. The home no longer exists although some of the bricks were used in the building of the Stevens Museum.

Directions: Go to intersection of County Farm Road and SR 160. Turn right, go 0.6 miles. The cemetery is located on a small knoll in the middle of an agricultural field.

Not everyone who died at the home is buried in the cemetery. All of the markers are gone except one. The Washington County Cemetery Commision set a stone in 1983 that reads: "In memory of those buried here between 1888 and 1940".

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-88-218 (Poor Farm / County Home).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for County Farm Cemetery is 175-567-25083 with the dataset compiled in 2008.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 1, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (02 April 2005), gives the primary cemetery name as Poor Farm.









The cemetery is located near the Washington County Home for the Indigent. The home no longer exists although some of the bricks were used in the building of the Stevens Museum.

Directions: Go to intersection of County Farm Road and SR 160. Turn right, go 0.6 miles. The cemetery is located on a small knoll in the middle of an agricultural field.

Not everyone who died at the home is buried in the cemetery. All of the markers are gone except one. The Washington County Cemetery Commision set a stone in 1983 that reads: "In memory of those buried here between 1888 and 1940".

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-88-218 (Poor Farm / County Home).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for County Farm Cemetery is 175-567-25083 with the dataset compiled in 2008.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 1, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (02 April 2005), gives the primary cemetery name as Poor Farm.









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  • Added: 10 Mar 2003
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1958051