of
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, page 102
COUNTY FARM. In 1883 a farm consisting of 160 acres was purchased at a cost of $12,000 in Bloomington township, to be used and known as the County Farm. Here buildings of a suitable character were erected and made comfortable and pleasant for the care and protection of the county's unfortunate ones not able to care for themselves. The institution is practically self-supporting and since its foundation has cared for and sheltered on an average of about thirty-five inmates each year. For many years Milton Rice was superintendent of the farm, but since his death in 1910, Charles Kleindolph has filled this position.
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