Heritage is more than inheritance.
Over and over, mayors, planners, and historical society directors bemoan the utter ordinariness of their municipalities. "Nothing important even happened here. No Civil War battle, no great fire, no political speech, nothing." Asked to walk about their downtowns, their residential streets, their factory areas in search of historic things, they walk past a wealth of things they dismiss as unimportant or out-of-date if they see them at all.
But let the bits and pieces be torn up to make way for progress, and the antique dealers begin pawing through them, selecting everything from cobblestones to fire alarm boxes to cast-iron hitching posts. Properly displayed in their stores, the dealers know, the junk becomes valuable, not only for its beautiful shape and color, but for its "historical associations" -- its associations with a larger, deeper heritage.
Planners need to sift antiques from junk, and focus attention on the antiques not so much as things important in themselves, but as portals to the national heritage. As historians now emphasize, everyday life is important indeed.
To successfully log this find, your log must include a photo of your GPS with a HISTORIC hitching post. No modern day replicas allowed. In Amishland, many posts prevail but we are looking for historic hitches. Also, UNacceptable will be antique shoppe decors - we're looking for the real McCoy still intact. Log the lat/long coordinates with the location found & any pertinent history.