Tag: Paupers Cemetery
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El Paso County Poor Farm, one of the last in the country, cared for the needy, old or ill
Since 2017 the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum has told the area’s history with an interactive alphabetical “Story of Us.” “P” stood for the Poor Farm in the exhibit. Fittingly, the Poor Farm had been here since the beginning of the city. In 1880 the county commissioners chose a cottage on El Paso Street for a…