The USS Constellation has a similar issue:
I’m tickled to learn about the Wing House (I think I’ve seen it on maps). Stephen Wing’s grandfather and namesake, the Rev. Stephen Bachelder, is two of my ancestors (don’t ask).
While this isn’t in the running (about eighty years too late), another of my ancestors, Richard Blackburn, built the oldest surviving building in Prince William Co., Va. (Either his own home, Rippon Lodge, or the neighborhood church - I forget which). Blackburn also designed the original house at Mount Vernon for George Washington’s half-brother. Nice to know somebody I’m related to did something useful. . . .
The first Piggly Wiggly is still standing and still in use and pretty icky as well although Piggly Wiggly no longer owns the location. I didn’t vist the restroom because the rest of the store so freaked me out.
I suspect that Piggly Wiggly is in Tennessee. Maybe Memphis or Jackson. I think my dad said that he used to know the man who owned the first Piggly Wiggly. Ya’ll don’t consider that name-droppin’ do ya?
I liked staying at the Concord Inn in Massachusetts. Part of it was Thoreau’s house and another part of the inn was where the munitions were stored that the British were coming after when they got to the Lexington-Concord area and ran into the Minute Men. It’s not the oldest inn, I’m sure, but its history gives me pause.
the first Piggly Wiggly was on Main st in Memphis in 1916, it is now a Jack’s food store.