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Rural Richardson: The Farm at the Buffalo State Hospital

By Ruth L. Davis - July 15, 2009

H.H. Richardson's towers get the publicity but the land now used by Buffalo State College was much more than a psychiatric ward. The author remembers her childhood growing up on the farm that served the Buffalo State Hospital in the 1920s and 30s.

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