Have you ever seen a building (especially an older one) and wondered how many different businesses/people occupied it? Even with malls, different stores always seem to come and go, and it's neat sometimes to think back and remember what stores used to be there.  I used to work at the mall at a bookstore, but now the exact location houses a Chuck E. Cheese. It's funny to think that those kids are playing games and stuff in the exact spot that I used to work at. :D

In Lancaster there putting in a convention center and some of it is going where part of Thaddeus Steven's property was.  Builders ran into some difficulty when they unearthed a small cemetery.

One of the hospitals is built over top of the remains of a Mennonite meeting house.  Meeting house hasn't been there for over 60 years, however I know some people who remember it.

As for buildings that still stand.  There used to be a charity hospital where they forced people to go during the early 1920's outbreak of cholera.  It is now a county government building.

I have memories of a local funeral home going out of business.  The building later became a Burger King.

In Lancaster there putting in a convention center and some of it is going where part of Thaddeus Steven's property was.  Builders ran into some difficulty when they unearthed a small cemetery.

One of the hospitals is built over top of the remains of a Mennonite meeting house.  Meeting house hasn't been there for over 60 years, however I know some people who remember it.

As for buildings that still stand.  There used to be a charity hospital where they forced people to go during the early 1920's outbreak of cholera.  It is now a county government building.

I have memories of a local funeral home going out of business.  The building later became a Burger King.



that's cool..I love hearing stories like that.

yeah...i love nostalgia. i've seen alot of places come and go, and enjoy when i remeber the places. our Gemco became a Target, our Montgomery Wards became an Albertson's, our Thrifty's became a Starbuck's...it's just neat to remember that and refresh peoples memories

I did a deed search on my house to find out the history of who lived in it.  I found one couple who lived here in 1900, and in the US Census he resembles to a man who lived a couple of towns over with a wife and a couple of kids.  Same name, same occupation, same place of birth, same age, same place of birth of parents.  :o

I did a deed search on my house to find out the history of who lived in it.  I found one couple who lived here in 1900, and in the US Census he resembles to a man who lived a couple of towns over with a wife and a couple of kids.  Same name, same occupation, same place of birth, same age, same place of birth of parents.  :o


Interesting.

I did a deed search on my house to find out the history of who lived in it.  I found one couple who lived here in 1900, and in the US Census he resembles to a man who lived a couple of towns over with a wife and a couple of kids.  Same name, same occupation, same place of birth, same age, same place of birth of parents.  :o



that's very interesting! How do you go about doing a search like that?

that's very interesting! How do you go about doing a search like that?


Deeds are registered at the registry of deeds in the county.  Each deed has the registration number of the owner before so you can trace them back.  Once I got the names of the previous owners I looked them up on Ancestry.com. 

In Ohio (were my parents grew up) the post office used to be the first high school established in the county.  My great-uncle who died in WW2 was the first math teacher.

There is a house in the next town over that always stood out because it was made of stone.  A two story house with about 6 rooms.  Turns out it is about 200 years old and at one time it was the county jail.  Now it is someones home.

We have the full history of our house in the UK.  Shortly after we bought the house our solicitor forwarded some papers from the mortgage company that were no longer needed. 

Included was the formal document relating to the purchase of the land from a local 'family', the plans for the house and some correspondence relating to the site of the garage (one of the utility companies had a small building on the site that was converted into a garage).  The original house was built in the early fifties. 

It was sold sometime in the eighties to the owners grandson.  He altered and extended the house (and we also have those plans because he left them behind).  We bought it from him in 2000.

In our basement, someone wrote their name on one of the beams with the date 1915. In 2015, Carlos & I are going to write our names next to his. I also know that the phone company used to be in my living room. I heard that the house was originally across the street but I really don't know how true that is. There have been a lot of people who have lived in this house-just within the time that I have lived in it, too. (USED to be 2 family-until we took over the entire house.)



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In our basement, someone wrote their name on one of the beams with the date 1915. In 2015, Carlos & I are going to write our names next to his. I also know that the phone company used to be in my living room. I heard that the house was originally across the street but I really don't know how true that is. There have been a lot of people who have lived in this house-just within the time that I have lived in it, too. (USED to be 2 family-until we took over the entire house.)



Cat



that's really cool, Cat. I love hearing about..finding neat things from the past.