Shoutout to the librarian who showed me a 1923 census record for my street

I found out last Tuesday that my house was built over a pig farm from the 1800s, which explains why my backyard floods every time it rains, has anyone else dug into their property's history and found something weird?

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simon7177d ago

The 1923 census wouldn't mention flooding though, so maybe that's just old drainage problems.

alice3367d ago

Hold on, are you sure it's a pig farm and not just poor grading? I've seen houses where the original builder just didn't bother with proper drainage. Soil composition matters more than what was there a hundred years ago. Unless you're finding literal pig bones in your yard every spring, it might just be bad luck with the water table.