“Inmate” Was Term Used to Describe Poor House Residents
Vol. 4, No. 8 As I perused the pages of a death ledger from the Orleans County Home, covering the years 1873 to 1902, the phrase “inmate” appears quite regularly.…
Read moreVol. 4, No. 8 As I perused the pages of a death ledger from the Orleans County Home, covering the years 1873 to 1902, the phrase “inmate” appears quite regularly.…
Read moreVol. 4, No. 5 The history of Orleans County’s African American population in the earliest decades of our area is scarce and unknown in many aspects. Some residents may be…
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