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Historic Asylums of America

Dedicated to the study of historic insane asylums, state hospitals, sanitariums, county homes, medical hospitals, and related institutions.

Institutional Cemeteries (Facebook)

Remembering asylum, poor farm, and other institutional cemeteries.

Poorhouse Story

A clearinghouse for information about 19th Century American Poorhouses for history buffs, genealogists, teachers/students, and others with a similar interest. This is an ongoing project which continually updates information regarding the history and records available about the county poorhouses which dotted the American landscape from the early 1800s through the early 1900s.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

The Almshouse Association

The Old Poor Law 1795-1834

From the Peel Web.