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/GWB.2ACE/1295.2 Message Board Post: Just found some more info. The Knox County Infrimary (Knox County Home) in Bangs was established in 1877. In 1957 it was purchased by the Four-Square Gospel Church and was opened as a Bible College in 1958. In the 1912 "Past and Present of Knox County Ohio" Volume 1 on Page 80, the section on The Knox County Infrimary in part reads: "from an early date (Knox County) had charity and compassion on it unfortunate poor. In 1842, the county commissioners bought 132 acres in southwest corner of Liberty township as its first poor farm. In 1874, it became necessary to provide better quarters for the poor of the county due to an increase in the numbers of poor. After several difficulties, the new building was completed in 1877. This instiitution is located on section 2, Liberty township, on a beautiful elevation of ground on the south side of Dry Creek, near Bangs Station along the line of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railway. The original main building is 75 by 127 feet, with an open court in the rear 34 by 55 feet. It is four stories high with a tower rising 65 feet above the roof. Over one million bricks were used in the construction. It has three water tanks on the up! per floor holding 40 barrels of water each. The building was heated by steam throughout. There were 100 good rooms, accommodating easily 125 inmates. The tax-payers of Knox county have ever cared for her soldiers and other unfortunate citizens."