This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1YB.2ACI/878.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The Children's Home may not have been in existence in 1870, I'm not sure, and that is why they were placed there. I know in the late 1800's homeless people were placed there. In the 1910 census it was known as the Almshouse and today it is known as the Harrison County Home.