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Does anyone ever try to find the history of their property?

I am trying to dig up the history of my property.

I know the history of my town. It's an old railroad town. I live about 5 miles from the tracks and the historic area, which is all old preserved/restored buildings along the tracks. It currently hosts trendy restaurants/bars/shops and the some new upgrades. It is the center of the towns activities.

But I want to know the history of my property. I am the only owner of my house, which was built in 1999. Before that it was ??? woods ??? But the woods cant be older than 100 year old trees. So what was here before it?


Does anyone know how to find this info?

I did find this absolutely fascinating website history of the American Indian history in my county. Its a good read but doesnt end well.


Also I am mad that 6 Flags got built on top of indian burial mounds and nobody cared. That should be a crime.

https://accessgenealogy.com/native/native-american-history-of-douglas-county-georgia.htm

Anyways, what I want to know is:

Are there any good websites that can give details about specific areas?

And also, I would like to know of any interesting history of where YOU live.

Five miles to the North West of my home are historic buffalo jumps.

Less than 8 miles from my home, this tragic event occurred:


Site of baker massacre



Descendants of Heavy Runner's band of Blackfeet Indians stand at the place from which their forebears were attacked by U.S. cavalry in 1870. A commemorative observance of the tragedy is held each year on January 23.

Some people say that blame for the eventual downfall of the great Indian nations of the Northwest should be laid at the feet of the Corps of Discovery. Or that the ruin of the Blackfeet Nation in particular is entirely traceable to Meriwether Lewis's reaction to the eight Piegans who tried to steal his guns and horses on the morning of July 27, 1806. Or that Lewis had turned them against all Americans the night before when he told the eight that his own nation's traders would supply guns and other goods to their enemies, the Nez Perce, the Shoshonis, and the rest. But scapegoating is too simple an answer.

This story is far too complicated to be told fully in a few hundred words, and besides, the factual details are still cloudy. Many foul deeds on both sides, over a span of 64 years, led up to the terrible events of a bitterly cold January morning in 1870, at the extreme upper end of present Lake Elwell, 20 miles northeast of Conrad, Montana.
But the greatest guilt clearly fell on the side of the U.S. Cavalry. According to one of the officers involved, it was "the greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by U.S. troops." Once again, the victims were Piegans.

While only a few Blackfeet chiefs were openly hostile toward Americans, a number of young Piegan and Blood men, angry over broken promises, diminished buffalo herds, and loss of land, had been carrying on a guerrilla war for some years. The most prominent among them was one named Mountain Chief.

Some settlers repeatedly demanded that the government do something about their "problem." Ultimately, the senior military officer for the territory, General Philip Sheridan, responded with a fateful decision from his office in Chicago: "If the lives and property of citizens of Montana can best be protected by striking Mountain Chief's band, I want them struck. Tell Baker to strike them hard." "Baker" was Brevet Colonel Eugene Baker of the Second Cavalry.

At 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, January 23, 1870, within easy range of the 32 skin lodges clustered near the Marias River beneath the bluffs, 200 soldiers opened fire with their fifty-caliber rifles. By 11:00 a.m. 120 men and 53 women and children had been slaughtered and the camp totally destroyed. There were 140 survivors, but when their captors suspected evidence of smallpox among them, they were all released to fend for themselves; many froze to death before they could find shelter. The cavalry suffered one fatality.

Before the first shot was fired an Army scout named Joe Kipp tried to warn Colonel Baker that the camp the guns were trained on was not Mountain Chief's. It was indeed the village of the peaceable Heavy Runner, who was the first to be shot as he emerged from his lodge waving his safe-conduct paper.

http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/615

https://legalbeagle.com/6107579-out-history-land-house.html

You can also reference war between the states maps. I find those interesting. You may not pinpoint your plot, but you can see if it was in a existing town or out in some field or woods.

I Live in South Florida, where an "old" house was built in the 60's or 70's.

As for my house, we built it, so it's new, 100 years ago it was swamp. 25 years ago, I was playing paintball with my friends in the woods where my house now sits.

My property started out as open land that was utilized by mostly native americans, until the French illegal alien white men took control of it. They sold it in the Louisiana Purchase to the English speaking illegal alien white men who used the land to march native americans across the country and gave my land, as well as many others, to the survivors of the Creek and Cherokee tribes. The illegal alien white man then took the land back when they found oil and began homesteading. It became farm/ranch land that was sometime later purchased by the a local family who married into the Walton family of Walmart fame. Now it's brick homes around a golf course.

I live in Charleston, South Carolina. Have I looked for it??? Heck, down here, I can't avoid it!!!! LOL Not a mile from my house is a road that Indians, Revolutionary Armies, Civil War Armies, etc. would use. I have Plantations that provided the backbone of Agricultural, Trading, and yes Slavery Industries of the South. I can see where the very first shot in the Civil War was taken. I see Houses that are 300-400 yrs old that have survived multiple Hurricanes and Floods on a yearly basis for all that time. When I drive to Myrtle, I cross the North and South Santee Rivers. You might know them from the movie the Patriot. The movie was based on true events and Mel Gibson's character was an amalgamation of several people like Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan, Elijah Clark, Thomas Sumter and Andrew Pickens. I am drowning in History here...LOL As for my property...it is new development and has been forest until my house was put there.

I live in a house that has been a Drug house/whore house/Church/Rehab Facility/Restaurant/Bar/and second hand junk store.



and that's just since I moved in

You should repent and give your land to the natives.

They have casinos now, so it's all good.

You sounded overcome by undeserved guilt.

Only when I lose at the casinos.

I grew up on what had been the Black Swamp. The swamp was drained between 1859 and 1875. It then became farmland. We moved onto it in 1981. When I first saw the property as a kid, before we moved onto it, it still had corn stubble on it from its last crop. About 200 years after it’s first.

I live in what is known as Browlee Woods. It is named after the Browlee family, (politicians and businessmen) who established this as an upper class neighborhood in the early 1900s. There are really 2 "phases" of homes ... those built before 1930, and those built immediately after WWII. As a result, there are some screwed up addresses. My house must have been built on a large lot, which was later divided. Thus, my home is (ex.) 1228, while the 2 houses down from mine are addressed 1226 then 1232. (So they go 1226, 1232, 1228) It creates all kinds of havoc with UPS. Fed Ex seems to have figured it out, but UPS is stymied.

There are older homes that are bungalows or colonials, and then a ton of Cape Cod or single story "box" homes with no basements, When soldiers came home from WWII, they needed homes, and they tossed up a ton of these small homes, mainly for soldiers to buy inexpensively. Quite a lot of these cheaper homes have been added on to once to twice, (or more) and are much larger than they were originally.

My grandfather bought his home in Brownlee Woods, on Midlothian, back in the 1930s, and lived their till his death in 1991. My mom has lived in the Brownlee Woods area for most of her life. I am lucky in that I know the general history of the area based on my mom's (and grandfather's) history.

Youngstown Ohio is actually older than Ohio itself. It was founded by John Young, and he bought the property, 15,560 acres, from the Western Reserve Land Company, for $16,085. (just over $1/acre)

Youngstown, and the surrounding areas, had huge deposits of iron and coal, which, when combined with easy access to the Mahoning River, led to a burgeoning steel industry.

Before John Young settled the land, there were Sioux, Cherokee, and Iroquois tribes in the area.

A big Delaware Indian settlement along the Cuyahoga River. One side was the settlement the other shore was a shared hunting ground. As I understand, when you crossed to hunt, all disputes were to be left behind. My house nearly straddles the western US border of the early to mid 1700s.

Your stories are all very interesting!

I did find this website written by a local historian, so I sent her an email.

http://douglascountyhistory.blogspot.com/

Also, its kinda cool, because the header image on that website is an old photo of part of the historic area in my town. The buildings are the same today, minus the awnings, and some new trees have been planted along the sidewalk.

But the angled parking is the same. That road runs parrallel to the tracks, which are to the immediate left not shown on the photo.

Anyways it was cool to see a photo from the 50s.

MY wife and I had our home built in 2000 and prior to the subdivision being created was a corn field.

The town I grew up in is the site of 2 very important battles in the early history of our country. It remains the worst defeat in US army history or so we have been taught since I was a little kid. It was not sheer #s of soldiers lost, as about 1,000 casualties, but in terms of the total size of the entire US army. After the revolutionary war most of the army was disbanded but when the west was expanding they sent most of it into Ohio to deal with Native American issues.

The General in charge of the 1791 defeat, Arthur ST Clair, was the subject of the first congressional investigation in the history of the US.

3 years later General Mad Anthony Wayne built a fort and won a decisive battle to reclaim the territory and the Treaty of Greenville was signed shortly thereafter.

Not much else except for maybe rock guitarist Rick Derringer lived here until he was in JH.

Go to your local city government offices property/land title offices might get some info as I did when doing geneology search of family.

My grandparents own a house a bit south of here ... right along French Creek in PA ... anyways, George Washington (as a 18 year old during the French/Indian War) stayed on their land ... he wrote about it in his journal. Pretty cool to see