The county home was a red brick complex on old 322 next to the current Lock Haven branch campus which is on the east end of Clearfield. My understanding was that it was a place for the poor and most likely handicapped of the county to live. Most counties had these in the late 1800s to mid 1900s. In those days many people who were inconvient for their families or who were a severe strain on family resources were likely to be admitted without much formal inquiry. If they were able, they would be expected to work the farm the home was sitting on. I would look for probate or family court records to find evidence of who was there. I am in social services now in Ohio where up until the 1960s admission to these places was easy. Now Ohio has turned many into assisted living facilites and the residents pay to live there. Closing institutions has corrected the abuses of willy nilly placing people in them for life. Unfortunately it currently leaves a lot of disabled trying to find housing and care and extras like clothing and paper towels on $550. Clearfield also had a Children's Home which operated until about the 1970s. At first they took only ophans, but by the last twenty years more and more of the children were placed as being in one parent families where the one parent was unable to care for them. Jean