The county farm

Missouri · USA · Cemetery

Three storeys, in a hay field on a rock road past the cemetery. The owner lives directly opposite and does not want visitors.

This building near Lemons, Missouri stands three storeys high in a hay field, on a rock road just past the local cemetery, and the person who wrote the account says plainly that it looks like something out of a film.

The practical warning comes first in the original and should come first here. The owner lives directly across the road and people are caught trespassing.

A county farm, sometimes called a poor farm, was where a rural county housed people who had nowhere else: the elderly without family, the destitute, the mentally ill and the disabled. Residents worked the land to offset the cost of keeping them. They died there and were frequently buried on the property.

That history is behind almost every building of this shape in the American midwest, and there are a great many of them.

It is private property and entry is trespass.

FAQ

Hvor ligger The county farm?

The county farm ligger i Missouri, USA.