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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Park Ranger Amber Kirkendall with the Homestead National Historical Park talked about the Homestead Act of 1862 and provided a tour of a home on the ...
Sunday is the 150th Anniversary of the Homestead Act of 1862, which gave land west of the Mississippi to pioneers who would settle it. It was discontinued in 1976. The original document, signed by ...
DENVER — Acoma Gaither, Curator of Black History at History Colorado, joined 9NEWS Thursday to dig deeper into a piece of Colorado history -- how the Great Migration impacted the West. Gaither said ...
The Homestead Act of 1862 is one of America’s best-known and beloved laws. By giving away federal land for free to anyone who settled and cultivated it, the act enshrined ...
RUGBY, N.D. - It was standing room only in the Econolodge's conference room in Rugby, N.D., when Darrell Dorgan introduced D. Jerome Tweton, history professor emeritus at the University of North ...
With real estate prices going up and up these days, it is difficult to imagine a time when oceanfront or riverfront property was free. In 1862, Congress passed a Homestead Act which offered as many as ...
The term “homestead” has several meanings, so I will start off by being clear about the topic. “Homestead” sometimes denotes a home and surrounding land occupied by a family. However, the situation I ...
Crumbling wooden shacks and sagging windmills dot the landscape in this state. They are tucked into the woods and can be found off highways and dirt roads — all these remnants left behind. In his ...
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