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Care of needy citizens in Gilmer County dates to the county's creation in 1845. By 1907, an infirmary was needed on the local poor farm. With a $6,000 levy, the county court hired Albert N. West to design and W.D. Whiting to build the structure. After the New Deal changed the need for a poor farm, the building was used for civil and social services. It was added to the National Register in 1998 and condemned in 2020.
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