Help add to this list of Poorhouses and Workhouses by city or town! We have started by adding documents from poorhouses from towns in Essex County and Middlesex County. If you know of any in Massachusetts (including Maine, as Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1820), please let us know. Feel free to use the list of questions to the right as a guide.
Andover
Beverly
Lawrence
Middleton
What about the one in Easthampton MA located at 75 Oliver St was originally a poor house/farm in late 19th century is now run as a rooming house for the poor
Thanks for your response! Whatever Happened To is a crowd sourcing project If possible would you be able to add a picture of the poorhouse in Easthampton to our collection of poorhouse pictures ?
wikipedia.org. The Town Farm, now the Easthampton (MA) Lodging House, 75 Oliver Street, Easthampton, MA 01027
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
wikipedia.org. The Town Farm, now the Easthampton (MA) Lodging House, 75 Oliver Street, Easthampton, MA 01027
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Worcester, Massachusetts. On or near Beverly Road, remembering from the 1940s.
Poorhouse in Worcester, Massachusetts
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/east-valley/2014/10/20/660-666-lincoln-st-worcester/36081829007/
Poorhouses Were Designed to Punish People for Their Poverty
In a time before social services, society’s most vulnerable people were hidden away in brutal institutions.
https://www.history.com/news/in-the-19th-century-the-last-place-you-wanted-to-go-was-the-poorhouse