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Poverty Hollow was a debtors’ work farm and is now, because time has a sense of humor, the site of some of the town’s most McMansion-y developments.
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Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
On March 31, the coroner’s office asked the Hinds County Board of Supervisors for permission to bury Moran in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail’s work farm, records show.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
But two of Emmett’s friends from the work farm, Duchess and Woolly, join them and force Emmett and Billy east to New York.
—Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 6 June 2022
Emmett Watson, 18, has just returned to Nebraska from 15 months at a juvenile work farm in Kansas.
—Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
Margaret, Waley’s wife, landed at a Michigan work farm.
—oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
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Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
On March 31, the coroner’s office asked the Hinds County Board of Supervisors for permission to bury Moran in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail’s work farm, records show.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
But two of Emmett’s friends from the work farm, Duchess and Woolly, join them and force Emmett and Billy east to New York.
—Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 6 June 2022
Emmett Watson, 18, has just returned to Nebraska from 15 months at a juvenile work farm in Kansas.
—Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
Margaret, Waley’s wife, landed at a Michigan work farm.
—oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
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“Work farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20farm. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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