Osceola County Poor Farms 1884 Portrait & Bio Album

At the annual session of the Board of Supervisors in 1872, it was determined, after a short conference, that the proper thing for the county to do was to make some provisions for its poor. Accordingly a committee was appointed to select and purchase a suitable grounds for this purpose. Acting upon this authority, the committee selected and purchased 160 acres on section 28, in Sylvan Township, about two miles north of the village of Sears, at a cost of $2,000. The first building was erected in 1873. Since this time many improvements have been made, and the farm has been brought under good cultivation. The rooms are comfortably furnished, and are amply sufficient to meet the present demands of the county. The poor that are sent here are kindly treated, and their wants attended to. Such institutions speak well for a county, insomuch as they represent the charity and benevolence of its people. We would have been much pleased to give further details regarding this institution, and made repeated efforts to secure this information while at Hersey and since, but failed, because the parties to whom we applied, and on whom we had to depend, did not respond to their promises.