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The Homestead Act of 1862 was a major factor in opening the Great Plains to white settlement. Under the provisions of the Act, settlers could obtain title to a quarter-section (160 acres, or 65 ha) of land for a nominal fee, provided that they built a house, made certain improvements, farmed the land, and occupied the site for at least five years.
Architectural and Engineering Plans (2,500 items): Paper tracings and blueprints of "subsistence homesteads" and "experimental villages" built by the Subsistence Homesteads Division (Interior), Division of Subsistence Homesteads (Resettlement Administration), and FSA, including plans of the Arthurdale Community and Reedsville, WV, projects ...
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (2019) excerpt; Gates, Paul Wallace. "The homestead law in an incongruous land system." American Historical Review 41.4 (1936): 652–681. online; Gates, Paul Wallace. Free homesteads for all Americans: the Homestead act of 1862 (1963) online. Hansen, Karen V., Grey Osterud, and Valerie Grim.
In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. These acts were the first sovereign decisions of post-war North–South capitalist ...
The Act was closely based on the U.S. Homestead Act of 1862, setting conditions in which the western lands could be settled and their natural resources developed. In 1871, the Government of Canada entered into Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 to obtain the consent of the Indigenous nations from the territories set out respectively in each Treaty. The ...
A homestead is an isolated dwelling, especially a farmhouse, and adjacent outbuildings, [1] typically on a large agricultural holding such as a ranch or station. [ 2 ] In North America the word "homestead" historically referred to land claimed by a settler or squatter under the Homestead Acts (United States) or the Dominion Lands Act (Canada).
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Florida vernacular architecture at the Cracker Country museum on the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Florida; Capt. Francis A. Hendry House in LaBelle, Florida; Stephens House at the Manatee Village Historical Park, Bradenton, Florida; Old Mayo Free Press Building, the Old Lafayette County Courthouse and House of the Seven Gables in Mayo ...