This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/2330.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Spokane County Poor Farm was a place where the poor and unwanted would go and have a roof over there heads. Many people passed through it's doors over the years and are buried there under the road I understand. Why? We don't know why anyone would plow a road through a graveyard, The farm had gardens and raised livestock if my information is correct. The person who directed you to Nona Hengen was correct, but the restaurant is call the Harvester. They have many of her paintings depicting early history of the area. Nona has written articles and books on the area and would be the one to accurately give you the facts. I've never heard it was a tuberculosis hospital. My own great great grandmother had tuberculosis and died somewhere around there in 1901. I heard the tuberculosis hospital then was at 8th and Park Road in Spokane.