In 1895, Cass County built a hospital three-and-a-half miles north of downtown on an oxbow of the Red River which treated sick paupers and served as a nursing home for the elderly who had no family or means of support. On the property was also a poor farm where able-bodied inmates helped with the farm work. When a resident at the hospital or poor farm died, with no money for burial or a tombstone, the county paid for burial in cheaply-marked graves in the "potter’s field" cemetery. In 1974, the city of Fargo purchased the land from the county, which is now the home of Trollwood park. Although the city agreed to maintain the cemetery, most people who use the park are unaware of the people buried here unless they happen to notice this solitary marker on an ordinary looking stone.