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Jo-Ann: I might be all wet on this one, but I believe that the "infirmary"
was also called the "County Home or County Farm", a different facility from the
state hospital. While the state hospital dealt with mental illnesses, the County Home was
a place for the indigent, or those not mentally ill, but having no family and no where
else to go and still needing some care. This facility was located outside the city but
on the north end, east of the intersection of Petersburg Road, Stringtown road and Old
State Road, along what is now known as Senate Avenue. The grounds of the old County Home
are now a municipal golf course. Locust Hill would have been the closest Public Cemetery
to the old County Home. I had a great-aunt, long since dead, who once worked as a nurse
there. I hope this helps. Certainly, there are other local historians who could do a
better job of helping you should they see this. As for records of this facility, I would
suspect they are at Willard L!
ibrary or with the county Health Department, if they exist at all.
Best of luck.