Vigo County Poor Farm Graveyard
Also known as County Home Cemetery , Vigo County Poor Asylum Cemetery
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA
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Terre Haute, Indiana 47804 United StatesCoordinates: 39.49783, -87.36783 - Cemetery ID:
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"Feed the hungry and clothe the naked is a sacred charge."
"The first poor house in Vigo County was built on 80 acres in 1853 and was charged with caring for the ‘unfortunates' of the county. By 1865, due in large part to the rapidly growing city of Terre Haute, the house was no longer adequate to care for the poor of the county and the house was sold."
"In 1866, a new site for the Home, located on what is now Maple Avenue, was purchased and construction on a new building soon follows. The County Home was rebuilt again in 1936 with an expansion in 1976. In 1992, ownership of the Home was transferred to Nationwide Management Inc. of Indianapolis when the Vigo County Council voted to sell the Home."
--SixDogTeam
The cemetery is located in Harrison Township (SW quadrant of the NW quadrant of the SW quadrant of Section 12, Township 12N, Range 9W) about 2000 feet west of N Fruitridge Avenue about 0.4 miles north of its intersection with Maple Avenue.
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-84-129 (Vigo County Poor Farm / County Home).
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"Feed the hungry and clothe the naked is a sacred charge."
"The first poor house in Vigo County was built on 80 acres in 1853 and was charged with caring for the ‘unfortunates' of the county. By 1865, due in large part to the rapidly growing city of Terre Haute, the house was no longer adequate to care for the poor of the county and the house was sold."
"In 1866, a new site for the Home, located on what is now Maple Avenue, was purchased and construction on a new building soon follows. The County Home was rebuilt again in 1936 with an expansion in 1976. In 1992, ownership of the Home was transferred to Nationwide Management Inc. of Indianapolis when the Vigo County Council voted to sell the Home."
--SixDogTeam
The cemetery is located in Harrison Township (SW quadrant of the NW quadrant of the SW quadrant of Section 12, Township 12N, Range 9W) about 2000 feet west of N Fruitridge Avenue about 0.4 miles north of its intersection with Maple Avenue.
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-84-129 (Vigo County Poor Farm / County Home).
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- Percent photographed91%
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- Percent photographed86%
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Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA
- Total memorials8k+
- Percent photographed94%
- Percent with GPS8%
- Added: 25 Jul 2011
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2411728
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