Do you have a Historical Building in your ancestory, located in the United States?

Pennington Bend is a historical landmark in Nashville. my great-great grandfather owned for many years. todays true owner is still pending. to refresh your memory…...The Opryland Hotel and Complex is sitting on Pennington Bend property.

Secretary of State Henry Clay is my great, great, great (however many times) uncle. His house is considered a historic location. It’s actually really cool.

Wow, that is pretty cool. I’ll bet more people have this sort of thing in their background than they know about.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Do you have a genealogy report so you can trace it?

That is awesome! I dont know if I have any historical building in my history but i would love to find out. Sorry for asking a question in your question, but does anyone know where I could look it find out if I do?

@Inked_up_chic No problem for asking a question. Personally I love questions, how else can we find out things? I think you will need to trace you parents names back to see what you can find. I warn you, once you start you won’t want to quit. It is so interesting. good luck. If I can find a better way I will PM you and let you know.

Also, there is a Pennington Indian Tribe somewhere in Tennessee. Cherokee indians.

@RANGIEBABY thank you, I dont know if that will work for me though, my mother came over from Italy and my father came over from Germany. you think its still worth looking?

@Inked_up_chic Did you ever have blood related family living in the US before your parents came here? If not, you probably do not have any history here, but you sure might in Italy or Germany.

@john65pennington This tribe you speak of sounds so interesting. If I were you, I would love to look into that further, maybe even go there. I have read a little about the Indian tribes in this country and find their cultures extremely inspirational.

My family has it’s own cemetery in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

@YARNLADY are your close relatives that have passed located there? Are you going there also? My ex-husbands family has a cemetery as well, located just before the foothills in Fresno County. Both of my ex in laws were buried there withing the last 5 years. It is a cute little fenced in area with a few grand old oak trees within.
Have you visited your cemetery?

Nope. An old farmhouse in Minnesota that was replaced sometime in the 70’s is all I could have laid claim to.

Ok so this may seem silly that I didnt think of this earlier but my sister brought up this point. Its not so much a “building” but I do have a famous person in history in my family, his name is John Basilone. Basilone is my mothers maiden name so he is a direct line to me. I dont know if any of you have heard of him but he was a World War 2 hero. He spent years in the Army and the Marines which is what he was in when he died as a Gunnery Sgt. He is my second cousin. What made him famous was everyone in his Platoon was killed except him and two others that were wounded too bad to fight, he held off 3000 troops by himself until help could arrive. Sadly he died before they got there from a mortars shrapnel in 1945 in the battle of Iwo Jima. He currently has a ship named after him the SS Basilone, a bridge,a road and in New Jersey every year they have a parade in his honor.Some of the metals he received are Medal of Honor, Navy Cross,Purple Heart. Hes buried in the Arlington National Cemetery. And to this day if you join the Marines you are taught about him till you know his story inside and out…

@Inked_up_chic There you go, that is really special, and all of us honor him. And he has a Ship named after him and quite a lot of other things. Great recovery.

@RANGIEBABY haha thank you I sometimes forget about that since its been a story told to me my whole life.

One grandmother’s family owned a brewery in Pennsylvania. The building was torn down long ago, but I have collected some memorabilia from it, including hand-painted mugs, matchbooks, coasters, bottle caps, and a few bottles from when they switched to selling soda pop during prohibition. There was also a reputable artist that lived with the family for a bit, and bartered his paintings for lodging and beer. Two of the paintings still are in our family’s possession.

@Inked_up_chic I just googled his name and not only was he good looking, he has quite a list of accomplishments. “link” http://www.johnbasilonestampcampaign.com/photos.html

@RANGIEBABY haha I didnt think you would be that interested thats kinda flattering. And yes he was good looking if thats not too weird for me to say, i actually see alot of my mother in him and my older brother. thanks for the link!

THe Wyckoff House. Built my my ancestor, Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, the House was created in abt 1652 and is the oldest building in New York City. It is also one of the oldest wooden structures in the US. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968.

@eden2eve I love finding out all of this. I will check it out for sure. On June 4 1973, The Jackson Homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

@RANGIEBABY Isn’t genealogy amazing? That’s very exciting, about your Jackson Homestead. What’s great is when the genealogy yields real stories about ancestors, and not just names and dates.

We have a family web page that includes most of our current research, and many biographies, gravestones and effigies, and pictures. It has hooked us up with a lot of great cousins and much more of our lineage. The most amazing thing was finding a cousin over in Tyrol, Austria with the same surname as our maternal grandfather, when we thought the surname was completely obsolete. There is a mountain over there named for his surname, and we have visited it. It looks like the first scene in the Sound of Music. So fun!

I think it would be fun to gather as many of these types of historic places and mark them on a map. Then load up the RV and make a sweep of the country to see as many as possible. Take pictures and make notes. I think it would be much more fun than going to all the tourist places like amusement parks, National Parks etc.
@eden2eve You got that right. My sister took a picture of one of the photos that hangs on the wall and I swear, when I first saw it, It was grandpa. I really need to go there, and many other places like it.

@RANGIEBABY In our web page, we have Google Maps linked, which shows us the locations of various events in our ancestors’ lives. I bet you could use Google Maps for your project, if you have someone who is a computer nerd.

@eden2eve I have google earth and have already located it. It almost makes you feel like you are there. And some day I will be. Oh, I am not a nerd though. I will have to find out how to do that. :) Thanks for the suggestion

@RANGIEBABY Our family cemetery was filled long ago. A few family members take care of it now, but it has been closed to new sites since the 1940’s. In the 1800’s each family member had dozens of children, and it was very common through my Grandfather’s childhood.

Nope. First gen American on my father’s side, and I come from a not-very-long line of nobodies on my mother’s.

My husband probably does, though I don’t know where. He has claim to a passenger on the Mayflower, I know that… and the Desmonds of Ireland – two castles there. One’s a ruin now, the other’s a winery.

Yes. A church in my families’ homestate has a church built by a relative and named for his wife, a town was founded and named after her as well but I think it may have been changed after the Santa Fe trail.

@Neizvestnaya have you tried to track down the exact location? That would be awesome.

@RANGIEBABY
Yes, it called the Santa Clara church.

@Neizvestnaya I googled to see it, but there are more than one. Have you been there to see it. It sounds so exciting to me to know there is a church in the family. I would have to go see it.

@RANGIEBABY
It’s in New Mexico and I was taken there as a child a few times, I think it still exists.

@Neizvestnaya How wonderful. I will google until I find it. I would really love to find all of these places and go to all of them. Can you imagine what a fun trip that would be?

The only one I know of is in Scotland. There are probably others, I just haven’t looked. I go back and forth on wanting to know about my ancestry.

@papayalily The best I can say is don’t go back and forth, just go for it and find what you can. It is fun and you might be quite surprised.

@RANGIEBABY My aunt did it all about 10 years ago, so for the most part I can just look at what she found out. I’m just not sure I want to know what’s there.

@RANGIEBABY
This is exciting!

@Neizvestnaya Yes it is, and would be even more if we could visit all of them. Take pictures and make notes about what we see. We all already know what to expect at Disneyland, but these places would be totally unknown to us. How fun it would be.

Mom had 3 sisters, and they range from 85 – 97 in age (one just recently passed away.) Their father was co-owner of a construction company that still exists that built several historical landmarks in their hometown in Pa. He also built their large stone house, which was sold when their mother died.

The sisters get together each year. Last year, they met at the one who still lives in their hometown. Aunt Jane had arranged a tour with the current owners so they could walk through the house again. Oh, how I wish I had been there.

@Neizvestnaya and @RANGIEBABY If someone has a place in the Memphis, TN, area that they want me to track down and take photos, I’d be more than happy to do so, as long as I’m still here. A co-worker was from where I was born, and she went to the house I lived in for 2 years before the family moved and took photos. It was such a kind gesture.

@Pied_Pfeffer Is the large stone house a private home now? It would be nice if it could be added to the Historical Society. That is a great idea, if someone lives anywhere near any of these sites, they could go and see it, take photos and tell us all about it. I myself live in Central California and would be willing to track down your site.