The Mercer
County Home is situated north of Mercer. The principal buildings were
erected about 1882-83, ground being first broken in 1880. The original
cost of the building was over a hundred thousand dollars. The farm has
been owned and used by the county for these purposes for more than half
a century. The first poor farm was bought in 1851, and was also in Cool
Spring township, The site was ill adapted, and the place was sold
before buildings were completed. The present farm was bought of Thomas
Pearson in May, 1852, and was made ready for its first resident poor in
January, 1853.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Mercer County, 1909, Vol. I, page 24
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