Get Vermont news sent to your inbox ... had a profound impact on life on the state’s poor farms. A visitor to Hartford’s poor farm during the mid-1800s described the appearance of three ...

Residents were mostly older and the poor farms were largely gone by the 1950s with just a few remaining until the late 1960s. But in Newport, Vt., two women can still speak in first-person about ...

The Vermont law caused strife between communities ... must have made poor farms miserable places to live for other residents. A visitor to Hartford's poor farm during the mid- 1800s described the ...