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Histories &
Mysteries
Judy and John Tole
sen for ease of access to timber and water, and one presumes, for some degree of tillable land. A second farm was later established south of Sperryville at the end of what is still called Poor Town Road (across present RT 231 from the FT Grocery). There are also some oral history anecdotes that a third poor farm may have been located in Amissville, though there is no corroborating documentation. When Rappahannock County was arranged by magisterial district in the 1870s, an overseer of the poor was appointed from each district,
Following their inception, the utopian vision for these institutions for the needy did not take long to dim. Even before the Civil War, the poor houses and farms had become more expensive to operate than anticipated. Furthermore, conditions in many of the facilities were, perhaps predictably, abominable, with clothing and medical care in short supply or absent. And, shudder, these operations had not diminished the levels of the “unworthy poor” nor eliminated the need for “outdoor
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