Does anyone have postcards or photos of the County Home? I found this information by Boyd Crumrine. History of Washington County, PA with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Pioneers and Prominent Men. Edited by Boyd Crumrine, Philadelphia 1882. p. 468 - The County Home - An act passed the Legislature of PA April 6, 1830, authorizing Washington County to erect a house for the employment and support of the poor. The commissioners appointed in the act to locate a site for the farm on which to erect suitable buildings were Gen. James Lee, Alexander Reed, Col. Joseph Barr, Gen. Wallace McWilliams, Zephaniah Beall, Esq., William Patterson, of Ten-Mile, and David Eckert. After due examination, these commissioners selected a track of land in the township of Chartiers and North Strabane, then belonging to Robert Colmery. It contained one hundred and seventy-two acres, and was purchased for the sum of two thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars. It was a part of a tract of land originally owned by Andrew SWEARINGEN, and was inherited by Thomas Swearingen, who sold it to John Cook in 1801, from whom it passed respectively to Joseph Swearingen, Joseph Henderson (sheriff), and Robert Colmery. The land was purchased on contract, Aug. 19, 1830, and deed given therefor March 26, 1831. The directors of the poor and of the house of employment (William Hunter, John Watson, and Stephen Wood), advertised Jan. 15, 1831, to receive bids for the erection of a poor-house, at the store of William Hunter, Feb. 1st of that year. A house was erected soon after, which with repairs, answered its purpose unitl 1874, when the present house was erected. On the 28th of June, 1832, the directors of the poor purchased two acres adjoining the other land. Nov 2, 1861, one acrre was purchased, and on the 26th of April 1865, six acres (part of the Wallace patent) was also purchased, and April 1, 1867, a lot of twenty-eight acres additional was bought of John Cooke, making two hundred and nine acres now belonging to the farm...........(more) In the year 1837, in accordance with the presentment of the grand jury made June 23rd of that year (Robert R. Reed, foreman), a department was added for the better treatment of insane persons and those having contagious diseases. The estimate of expenses made for the year 1830-31 for the poor-house and building was $1500. For 1832 it was $5000........(more) The annual expense of the county home from 1874, including the cost of buildings, has been as follows: 1874, $17,553.63........; 1881, $14,406. Celebrate Your Family History!