Opened in 1736, the almshouse was a homeless shelter, jail, and workhouse rolled into one. From Wordnik.com. [Under City Hall Park] Reference
The almshouse was the commonest form of relief, and even recently, it has been described as the fundamental institution of American poor relief. From Wordnik.com. [Emergency Relief in North Carolina. A Record of the Development and the Activities of the North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration, 1932-1935. North Carolina Emergency Relief Commission, State administrator, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry. Edited by J.S. Kirk, Walter A. Cutter [and] Thomas W. Morse] Reference
Berks historian George M. M.iser IX said the records show the almshouse was a safety net for the poor, the mentally ill and those rendered helpless by old age. From Wordnik.com. [Berks county news] Reference
Crept away to die in the almshouse, home of the homeless. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
"Napper's Mite" is the name given to the old almshouse in. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
He points me out the almshouse hill, but cannot make me see. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
The state almshouse educates the brain and chills the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Russell H. Conwell] Reference
Wending her quiet way, she entered the door of the almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Of a total of 73,045 almshouse paupers, only 6,467 were Negroes. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
St. Anne, and latterly an almshouse erected by the Lady Margaret. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850] Reference
"Are you from the almshouse?" he continued, turning toward the keeper. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
“They have sent to the almshouse for the old women to lay him out.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
There is an almshouse (which Mr. Griggs has drawn), in which in its palmy days a. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
There had been some brutal treatment in the almshouse and he had tried to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
At last his sons-in-law, to salve their consciences, offer to place him in an almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Most of these bones are thought to belong to the residents of New York's first almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [Under City Hall Park] Reference
The local almshouse needs reforming, and the overseers of the poor should be trained experts. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
According to the analysis, the burial population is most consistent with that of the almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Big Apple] Reference
Perhaps it was an almshouse or a home for the aged, although it did not give him that impression. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Society]
In 1803, construction work began on a new City Hall, which was erected on the site of the demolished almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [Under City Hall Park] Reference
The reason I brought it up was, what I said at the end was that it was enough to keep him out of the almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [Hawthorne: A Life] Reference
A 1755 map shows same area, with almshouse (1) at site of City Hall, palisade (2), and African Burial Ground (3). From Wordnik.com. [Under City Hall Park] Reference
English almshouse, however, there was at least one person who claimed to be intimately connected with rank and wealth. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
Once at the wish of a friend I was visiting I went to carry some comforts to a neglected almshouse on a Western prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
They want to know if those bones in the park are not just from residents of the almshouse, but also from African people. From Wordnik.com. [Under City Hall Park] Reference
Next to it was a fenced-in cemetery, so that the poor could be near the almshouse, isolated in death as they were in life. From Wordnik.com. [Under City Hall Park] Reference
Some made it, but many fell ill, or out on their luck, and ended up in the almshouse, the asylum, or even the penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead of Snake Hill] Reference
It was towards the end of February that old Nannie sat by her fire in the peaceful almshouse in which she had taken shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
Great Britain organized societies and secured legislation to improve the almshouse, school, and working and living conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
I do not hesitate, in such a case, to suggest work, or the almshouse; or why not keep its castle in silence, as I do commonly?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
Shall I go with you to the almshouse, the orphan asylum, and to the retreat for the insane, that your sensibility may be roused?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
It was also the home of the first city almshouse, which was built in 1736 and served as a workhouse, jail, and homeless shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Big Apple] Reference
A woman in an almshouse, a girl serving a ship's crew, can be a lady and not cost her masters more, though her efforts cost her much. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Of 592 male adults in the almshouse in New York, not 20, says the superintendent, can be called sober; and of 601 women, not as many as. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Of course it was tampering with my figure -- in an almshouse there aren't any; but that's the way it presents itself to the best of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
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