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Sun:
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9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Russiaville
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Sun:
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2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

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Poor Farm Residents 1860-1930

The county institution presently known as the Howard County Home has its origins in 1857, when county commissioners Willis Blanche, Harvey Brown and B.W. Gifford, looking for a facility to serve as a "permanent home for the helpless and unfortunate poor who must be cared for at public expense,"