An example of the 'history behind...'
My husband grew up in a centennial farmhouse on the farm that went back to the mid-1830s. His great-great-grandmother became the first schoolmistress of the 'Hannaford Schoolhouse' after it was built in the 1860s. A classic old schoolhouse, with a bell up above with a long rope she would pull on the ring the bell calling the area children to school. In time, her daughter and granddaughter all taught at the school. And they all lived in the same farmhouse my husband grew up in. We have great-great-grandmother's handbell that was also passed down over the years.

When my husband was in high school, his folks having had to make the decision o either go really big with their dairy farm or sell out chose to retire as neither of their kids seemed likely to want to farm. The folks who live there now are massively into the history of the place as we have shared stories, artifacts, and pictures with them. On the day we went back to the old 'homeplace,' we were surprised to see the bell from the old schoolhouse out by the end of the driveway. When we mentioned it, they told us how when the old schoolhouse was torn down, they rescued the bell because no one else wanted it and it was from around that area.

You can imagine their smiles when the full story was revealed and that now the bell that several generations of the Theisen/Moyer family had called kids to school was at the end of the driveway where the schoolmistresses lived! Circle complete.