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`Poor farm' graveyard to be moved from grounds of Indiana business park

River Ridge Development Authority Board approved a contract to relocate the graveyard that once served a Clark County facility that housed impoverished citizens.

Editor's note: Attached video is not related to the 'Poor Farm' cemetery.

JEFFERSONVILLE,  Ind-- A cemetery where residents at a former southern Indiana “poor farm” were buried in the early 20th century will be moved from the grounds of a regional business park to another site at that complex. 

The River Ridge Development Authority Board approved a contract last week to relocate the graveyard that once served a Clark County facility that housed impoverished area residents. 

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The News and Tribune reports the site holds the graves of at least 27 people. The land is now part of the River Ridge Commerce Center, which has developed into a major commercial and industrial hub. 

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