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| Niagara County Almshouse on Niagara Street |
This is the first of a three part series on the history of the Niagara County Infirmary. The first part will relate how the property became the Infirmary, moving from the Poor House on Niagara Street. The second will be the general history of the Infirmary from 1915 until its closing in 1979. The third installment will focus on the associated cemetery behind the buildings on Davison Road.
It seems that the former county property on Davison Road is back in the news with some of the same questions about the property being asked over and over again. Most of us remember it as the Social Services building, but there is a lot more to the story than that. There is a long history of the Poor House/Almshouse in Niagara County that predates the establishment on Davison Road. Some of that is germane to the story of that property.