- Jackson County -

County Farm & Infirmary

 The Jackson County Poor Farm was built in Blackman Township, four miles from Jackson, at a cost of $12,000. Shortly after midnight on January 24, 1886, a fire started in the inmates kitchen and the whole interior was destroyed. Forty people resided there at the time and all but five escaped the blaze. The large wood frame, brick covered building shown here was built to replace it the following year.

By the 1950's it was no longer a working farm and in 1951 the county sold 183 acres of the property to John Jenkins. In 1963 the last residents, about 90 of them, were moved to the new Jackson County Medical Care Facility and, the following year, the property was purchased by Seventh-day Adventists. The empty Home was accidently set afire in April, 1967, as the grounds were being cleared for demolishion.

There is a small fenced in cemetery but the graves are not marked.