Orange County is going to build a new county home one mile out from Hillsboro on the Durham road. According to Ralph Ward, chairman of the board of county commissioners, the cost will be about $40,000, including the $7,000 paid for the land.
Just when the building will start is not known, since the subject has not been brought up at a commissioners’ meeting since the purchase of the land; but Mr. Ward thinks a start will be made before many months.
The present home, about a mile and a half north of Efland on the Cedar Grove road, has been unsatisfactory for several years because of unsanitary conditions. There is no record when I was built, but old-timers at Hillsboro say it is a hundred years old. It is probably the oldest county institution of its kind in the State. There are 12 inmates at present, all of whom are old and destitute; of the 12, three are negroes.
Under the existing conditions the home could hardly care for more. In some places the floors are rotted and are breeding places for vermin. All attempts to rid the place of these pests have been unsuccessful.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1925
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