On sunday my family & i toured a bicentennial farm house that is for sale,it sits smack dab in the middle of 12,000 acre's of farm land,the driveway is a half mile long,there was an open house all weekend long,this house was a trip.
The house could be featured on the tv show called "secret passages",the basement had 3 seperate entrances to it & the foundation was made from feild stones that came from the surrounding land & was dry as a bone,there was a secret passage that connected the basement to a root cellar underneath the main barn 40 yards away from the main house,the passage was dug by hand & framed with hand sawn timbre's,it looked like an old coal mine type deal.
The main house had 3 kitchens with one kitchen still having a hand water pump right next to the kitchen sink that still pumped drinkable water,there was 4 massive fireplaces in the home,the main fireplace was allmost large enough for my wife to stand in,we were going out the door to leave when my wife opened up what she thought to be a closet door,lo & behold another secret passage that led to another section of the house we did not know was there,the passage opened up into a very large living area with a set of staris leading to the 3rd floor,the top floor had 2 large bedrooms,a small kitchen & a bathroom,from the outside these area's of the home are not visable due to how they built the roof,the areas are hidden on all 4 sides by very steep roof lines.
The main barn (1 of 5 barns ) was creepy as fuk,it was 3 levels & still had a grinding wheel that was operated by a foot pump connected to the wheel,there was a pully system still in place where they would hook a mule to a rope to pull bails of hay up to the upper levels,so much history was in this place we didnt want to leave.
The house is for sale & my wife wanted me to buy it so bad,she came close to talking me into it too but after making a quick estimate of the cost to update the home to our living standards i knew it was out of my price range,isomebody is going to end up with a fantastic peice of americana when they buy that home.
Yesterday i toured (with my company) the very first Ford Motor Company factory in Detroit,this is where Ford built the Model A,it was also one of the plants where most of the Sherman Tanks were built for WW2.I took a Red Brick with me when i left as a keepsake.
It sucks knowing that pretty soon there will be vacant lot's where those old historic factories once were.
Ha wikid. We're bad 
