Original farmhouse on the Berryman Shafer farm, which was purchased by the Madison County Commissioners in 1877 for the County Poor Farm. The house was the living quarters of the superintendent's family until the infirmary was closed in the...
This building, completed in January 1878 at a cost of $7200, housed the inmates of the Madison County infirmary (or poor house.) The third of Madison County's three poorhouses, it was built on ground purchase from the Berryman Shafer family. A...