In 1858, Washington County purchased 207 acres of land for a Poor Farm whose residents were men, women, and dependent children from Washington County. The number of residents grew from 3 in 1860, to 30 in 1881, to 63 in 1936. Although the farm was run by the county, staff tried to make it as self-sustaining as possible, and residents raised crops, cared for livestock, and helped maintain facilities. As residents gradually grew older over the years, the institution underwent several name changes, and it closed in 1975 as the Pine Point Nursing Home. Several hundred yards south is the Washington County Poor Farm Cemetery, used primarily in the late 1800s and early 1900s, where up to fifty former residents of the Poor Farm are buried.