My apologies to those of you who went to the FRANKLIN County page on The POORHOUSE STORY and found some material there that was about Richland County. (How did I manage to do that? Go figure!) Anyway...it is now corrected; and I have added some additional information about your county's poorhouse history -- the report done in 1824 when the state was surveying how poor relief was provided in various counties. That report resulted in the passage of an 1824 law which set up a sytem of county poorhouses throughout the state. (There was already up on the page the results of an investigation into poorhouse conditions done in 1857 which described the current Franklin County Poorhouse.) I would like to invite you to visit The POORHOUSE STORY http://www.poorhousestory.com to see this and other material. If you recently visited the site, you will probably need to click REFRESH on your browser to see the new material. If you are new to the site, DIRECTIONS: At the homepage (link above)click on POORHOUSES BY STATE, then click on NEW YORK POORHOUSES, then on FRANKLIN on the table of NY counties. There are other pages on the site which may help you gain some more insight into poorhouse history; they are all links on the left side of the homepage and include: HISTORY, LETTER TO GENEALOGIST, and FEATURED ARTICLES, among others. Hope you enjoy the site! Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady) -----Original Message----- From: Poor House Lady [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: More POORHOUSE Information A reader named Kathy Campbell recently wrote me: ---------------------- I got interested in reading about the Poorhouses in Warren and Essex Counties after reading an article in the December 2000 issue of Adirondack Life magazine called, "Hard Times Come Again No More." It mentions several of the poorhouses in and around Warren and Essex County. There are pictures of ones in ESSEX County, WARREN County, and FRANKLIN County in the article. Thanks. kathy -------------------------- I have not gotten ahold of the magazine yet (I live in Texas.)...but I have subscribed. And I went to their website and found a portion of the article on-line at http://www.adirondacklife.com/editorial/nov3.htm Please go look! There is a great anecdote about a colorful "local character" (complete with old photo of him in his old Arirondack woodsman dress) who sadly wound up in the Warren County Poorhouse. I hope to get permission to put that article on The POORHOUSE STORY website at http://www.poorhousestory.com Thanks to Kathy for telling me about the article. And I hope others will do as she did and let me know about interesting poorhouse finds! Happy New Year! Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady)