History and images have been compiled from various sources including, among others, the 1987 National Register of Historic Places, Stack & Beasley's 1902 Sketches of Monroe and Union County, Union County Public Library (Patricia Poland, Genealogy & Local History Librarian), the Heritage Room Photo Collection, North Carolina Map Collection, Rootsweb - An Ancestry.com Community and Ancestry.com family histories.

Union County Home or "Poor House"

1902 Home for the Aged and Infirm - Click to enlarge.
The circa 1902 photo of the Union County Home, "Poor House," or "Home for the Aged and Infirm" on Lancaster Avenue, was found in Stack & Beasley's Sketches of Monroe and Union County.  

Below is a circa 1912 image of the same building. 

Union County Home circa 1912
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