Name Your Property

[rmorgan]

who lived in our house from about 1954-1991, was an author. She won a Pulitzer for fiction in 1935 or so. While she lived here, she wrote a book about the house and land called the Inland Island, so naturally that is what we still call it. Somebody has some <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.netwalk.com/~vireo/johnson.html/>quotes from the book on the web, and they still pretty well describe the place.

 

[EdKing]

My wife and I purchased our place about 2 years ago. It is a ~120 year old 2 story frame house setting on 93 acres of partially wooded farm land. I am constantly finding new things that need repaired/replaced. I am thinking of calling it "The Pit", as in money pit.

Ed King

 

[pajoube]

Interesting thread, in early 1990 I noticed an ad in the paper for bids on a 1932 two room school house on 1 1/3 acres of land. I decided to take a look and found the school house to be very well made and kept up. It is 40 X 40 with 12 foot ceilings and full basement. Long story short, we placed bid and came in second. The first place bid was rejected due to financial reasons so we ended up buying for 11,000 dollars. In the next 2 years we (wife and I) stripped down to studs, added three car garage, very large attached green house and laundry room for a total of 7000 foot home. Needless to say the basement is my pride and joy, a 40 X 40 work shop. Now we end up giving tours on Sundays to people who drive by who went to school there. We get between 2 and 10 each week. The front entry where the children entered has been retained as well as the outside appearance of a school. Naturally our place is called the old school house. The bank and I will each own this place for a long time.
Paul

 

[Wingnut]

well ... first we named the "hobby" 'cause I have a "thing" for quirky names.
So ... based on my surname and my spouses loves for all things miniature ... the "hobby" is called "dahlhaus miniatures". My surname is pronounced "doll" ... so - ignoring the spelling, the pronunciation is 'dollhouse" ... which suits miniatures, right?
So ... obviously we're living on Dahlhaus Farm.
Note that the "hobby" isn't miniature horses .... as I'm not sure when I'll get tired of saying no and end up with miniature donkeys, sheep, llamas, etc, etc. If you just say the word "miniature" - her eyes light right up!

 

[ForceTen]

We don't have a sign out or anything, but my wife (Stacey) and I (Steve) live on a small rise. Or last name is Hill. Obviously leading to...

Steve & Stacey's Hill

 

[Briarwood]

My wife mentioned that she caught a discussion on the Regis & Kelly show recently about the trend of naming one's home or farm. She noted that they were talking about registering the name; I guess, like a trademark. We have been calling our farm "Briarwood." On a whim, I typed "Briarwood" in a search engine and was surprised at the number of hits from hunting lodge to college and everything in between. Who controls a name? Should the name be registered somewhere? Could we be sued for something like trademark infringement?

JT

 

[MarkV]

We don’t have a name for our weekend house but all of our friends call it the mountain. I think they picked it up from all the times we turned down weekend invitations when we were building the mountain house. I wanted to call it “Southern Comfort”, my wife thought that sounded a little to much like rural N. Georgia./w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

I have an Aunt and Uncle who are retired Navy and call their place “Home Port”, I always thought that was cute.

MarkV

 

[Golfgar4]

<font color=blue>"On a whim, I typed "Briarwood" in a search engine and was surprised at the number of hits from hunting lodge to college and everything in between.'</font color=blue>

Briarwood,

I bet Briarwood Gallery didn't come up, did it? My wife and I operate an art gallery out of our home that we have named Briarwood Gallery. We haven't registerd it or anything, because it's an off shoot of her interior design business. Besides running my tractor (once I get it /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif) after I retire, we want to open the gallery full time and have a regular store front. We've decided that anyone that owns something that has the name <font color=green>Briarwood</font color=green> in it will automatically get a 25% discount - IF they stop in /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif!

 

[alan40]

Pumpkin Village Settlement is the title on our deed so that's what we call it. When I was in the Navy I told everyone that I would go back and live in Pumpkin Village Settlement. Boy did they laugh!!! Guess who got the last laugh?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif The road we are on has the same name and we also have the old Pumpkin Village school house at the end of the road. For us it's our little bit of heaven!!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Oh and yes we do grow several pumpkins every year to keep the gods happy!

 

[Spencer]

We are still working on a name. The winner so far is "The Hundred Acre Wood" from Winnie The Pooh (our daughters favorite show). Sadly we only have six acres (but all wooded). After we found that large canine print in the driveway last weekend <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=rural&Number=119792&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=>Paw Print Link</A> maybe we should name it "The Scarey Wood" also from Winnie The Pooh.

Spence

 

[RobS]

<font color=blue>The Hundred Acre Wood</font color=blue>

That's what we called one of the other parcels we looked at. You must have kids too /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

So why not call it "The Hundred Minus Ninety-Four Acre Wood"?/w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[mikim]

The piece we have is on "Rocky Hill" as mentioned in some old historical documents. My wife works for a title company and has found reference to rocky hill going back to before the republic. (Texas Republic) It was part of the old stage route and there are still ruts in places. The whole ridge is clay and rock. I imagine "Rocky Hill something" is what we'll end up with. Rocky Hill Home? RH retreat? RH ----???? have to put the kids to work on it - they have more time for such than I do.
mike

 

[PitbullMidwest]

<font color=blue>The Hundred Acre Wood</font color=blue>

Careful, the only company that cares more about copyright infringement than MicroSoft is Walt Disney.

Michael Eisner is watching you!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[GlueGuy]

My wife came up with the name "Four Winds", as several coincidences added up. She has always loved the Grateful Dead, and one of her favorite songs was one called "Franklin's Tower". One of the verses goes "May the four winds blow you safely home...", and there is a point on the coast right out in front of us called Franklin's Point. It all kind of ties together in a whimsical sort of way, and we like it.

Of course the ridge we live on is called "Sandstone Ridge", "Fatjo Ridge" and/or "Rattlesnake Ridge". Nothing to do with any of the above, but there doesn't seem to be a shortage of names....

 

[Bird]

I figured by now someone would have guessed the only name I've thought of for mine; Bird's Nest, what else?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[MarkV]

Bird, that is an absolutely perfect name./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

MarkV

 

[8NTX]

We named ours Terra Cove (our weekend getaway). It is 18 acres of woods in East Texas. The rear of our property fronts on a quiet wooded cove of a 1500 acre lake.

 

[RMEADOWS]

We have taken the first two letters from the name from each of our girls, Tiffany, Antoinette, Victoria and Candis and names our place the Tianvica Ranch.

 

[Golfgar4]

We haven't bought our 10 - 20 acres yet /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif, so really haven't put any effort into naming it. For discussion purposes, we refer to it as The Compound. I'm not sure if that will stick once we get the land or not, but at least we know what we're talking about!