{"id":2437,"date":"2021-02-15T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/faerie\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:22:47","slug":"multnomah-county-poor-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/multnomah-county-poor-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Multnomah County Poor Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Multnomah County Poor Farm<\/strong> (Now McMenamins Edgefield) Troutdale, OR<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_3641\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3641\" data-attachment-id=\"3641\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/multnomah-county-poor-farm\/multnomah_county_poor_farm_-_troutdale_oregon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?fit=1600%2C821&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,821\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S2 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1213330559&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ian Poellet &amp;#8211; Own work via Wikipedia.&lt;br \/&gt;\nThe Multnomah County Poor Farm (built 1911) in Troutdale, Oregon, United States, is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. Today the complex is operated as an entertainment and lodging complex under the name McMenamins Edgefield.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?fit=1024%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3641\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?resize=300%2C154&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" data-wp-pid=\"3641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?resize=1024%2C525&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?resize=768%2C394&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?resize=1536%2C788&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?resize=1200%2C616&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm_-_Troutdale_Oregon.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Ian Poellet &#8211; via Wikipedia.<br \/>The Multnomah County Poor Farm (built 1911) in Troutdale, Oregon,<\/dd>\n<p><\/p>\n<dd><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Deep in the heart of Troutdale was an early 1900&#8217;s farm that housed the homeless, sick, poor, and unfortunate. It was a place for those desperate to come and stay in exchange for work.\u00a0 Legend has it, many died while working the farm, and the place had a continual flow of people.\u00a0 In 1990, the Portland chain McMenamins built a hotel, brewery, and venue atop the property and have had claims of strange happenings ever since. Room 215 is claimed to be the most haunted room on the property. The front desk has a log of strange happenings at the property. <a title=\"McMenamins Edgefield\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.articlecats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/54-edgefield-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0 \u00a0www.mcmenamins.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Bibliography:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tindrick, Ryan 2014 &#8220;11 Scariest Haunted Places in Oregon&#8221;. Website referenced 10\/10\/15 at http:\/\/articlecats.com\/index.php\/11-scariest-haunted-places-in-oregon\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multnomah County Poor Farm (Now McMenamins Edgefield) Troutdale, OR Deep in the heart of Troutdale was an early 1900&#8217;s farm that housed the homeless, sick, poor, and unfortunate. It was a place for those desperate to come and stay in exchange for work.\u00a0 Legend has it, many died while working the farm, and the place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[70,15,45,53],"tags":[1316,1313,1312,1310,1315,1314],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghosts-the-undead","category-haunted-locations","category-sightings-news-articles","category-urban-legends","tag-1316","tag-haunted-hotels","tag-hotels","tag-mcmenamins","tag-multnomah-county-poor-farm","tag-the-poor-farm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}