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unusual facts about farmstead



1938 in archaeology

The Iron Age farmstead site at Little Woodbury, Wiltshire, England, by Gerhard Bersu for the Prehistoric Society using open area excavation techniques (continues to 1939; published 1940).

Blaž Arnič

Born in Luče, Lower Styria, Austria-Hungary, Arnič grew up on an isolated farmstead near Mount Raduha in the Kamnik Alps.

Brú

Brú is a farmstead and road junction in northwestern Iceland in Vestur-Húnavatnssýsla county.

Collins, Mississippi

Film legend Dana Andrews was born on a farmstead just outside Collins, and actor Gerald McRaney, and NFL stars Steve McNair, Correll Buckhalter and former NBA star Randolph Keys, were all born in Collins.

Dager-Wonsettler Farmstead

Dager-Wonsettler Farmstead is a historic building in Glyde, Pennsylvania.

Eyrbyggja saga

All of the events of the Saga take place in one small region of Snæfellsnes, shifting between Álptafjord, which cuts into the northern shore of the peninsula, and Helgafell, the farmstead on Thórsnes, where Snorri Goði resided.

Fitzgerald Station and Farmstead

As part of the land received according to the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty of 1830, the property of the station and farmstead was officially signed to Fitzgerald in September 1846 by President James K. Polk.

Frank L. Ross Farm

It is designated as a historic residential landmark/farmstead by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation.

Franklin Harris Farmstead

The Franklin Harris Farmstead is located near Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio.

Gwerclas

Gwerclas usually refers to a former castle and farmstead close to Cymmer in the parish of Llangar in the ancient cantref of Edeyrnion, Wales.

Hans Momsen

Hans Momsen lived on a small farmstead in Fahretoft, Duchy of Schleswig, now a part of the Dagebüll municipality in Germany.

Haxby

It is formed from a Norse personal name and the Old Scandinavian word bý, meaning "farmstead, village or settlement".

Ingleby Barwick

Ingleby is derived from Old Norse Englar+by and means 'farmstead or village of the English man', Barwick is Saxon in origin, Bere is Saxon for barley and Wick means farm.

Jean-Baptiste Baudoin

They arrived in 1857 (Bernard) and 1858 (Baudoin) respectively, and built a small chapel at the Landakot farmstead near Reykjavík.

Jennings-Gallagher House

The house is designated as a historic residential landmark/farmstead by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation.

Lewis Tower House

The house was probably standing when Lewis Tower purchased a 19-acre farmstead here from Philip Thomas in 1833.

Loupian Roman villa

Originally a modest farmstead built a few kilometres south of the Via Domitia, on the hillside overlooking the Bassin de Thau, it rapidly prospered and grew.

Lyndale Park

Lyndale Farmstead Park contains a recreation center and the Theodore Wirth house, Theodore Wirth House-Administration Building.

Muuksi

Architect Erika Nõva (1905–1987) was born in Toomani farmstead in Muuksi village.

Olrig

Boundaries were mostly disregarded and lost during the 19th century but many townland names remain identifiable in farmstead names ending with Mains.

Ostap Vyshnya

Pavlo Hubenko was born in a large peasant family of 17 children on 13 November 1889 in the khutir (farmstead) Chechva near the small city of Hrun, in Zinkiv uyezd, at the time in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire.

Port Royal, Virginia

Probably Port Royal's most notable claim to fame is that John Wilkes Booth was killed about two miles outside town by Sgt. Boston Corbett, part of a contingent of federal troops, at the now obsolete Garrett farmstead (look for prominent markers along northbound Rt. 301) on April 26, 1865 after Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, in Ford's Theater in Washington, DC.

Swarzędz

In the neighbouring town of Uzarzewo there is a park from the 19th century with a farmstead constructed between 1860 and 1865.

Swissvale, Pennsylvania

Named for a farmstead owned by abolitionist and early feminist Jane Swisshelm, during the industrial age it was the site of the Union Switch and Signal Company of George Westinghouse.

Vladimir Chertkov

Chertkov’s closest employees were often engaged in editing and drawing up his plans on his farmstead in Rossosh, located in the Ostrogozhsk District.


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