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Prices for land ranged from $5 per acre, for uncleared land, to an undetermined amount in some areas where it had been enhanced. Settlers agreed to a 30-year payment schedule with an annual interest rate of 3%. The federal government built houses and barns and paid for the transportation of the families and some of their goods to Alaska.
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 ...
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve: National preserve 2,697,391.01 acres (10,915.9541 km 2) Denali National Park and Preserve: National preserve 1,334,117.80 acres (5,398.9832 km 2) Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve: National preserve 948,608.07 acres (3,838.8807 km 2) Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve: National preserve
The Homestead Act was repealed in the 48 contiguous states in 1976 and in Alaska 10 years later. ... Most free-land programs require that you build a home within a certain period of time and pay a ...
In the spirit of settling the wild, wild West, some communities are giving away free land lots. What's the catch? You have to agree to build a house (or park a mobile home) and live in it. For the ...
Aug. 7—WASHINGTON — More than 50 years after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act passed Congress, a federal proposal seeks to resolve claims with so-called "landless" Alaska Natives from ...
Lands claimed by Alaska Natives under ANCSA are officially recognized. Native land claims pending as of December 18, 1971, are officially approved. Existing timber contracts are to be filled with timber from other national forest lands. If private land is surrounded by conservation system units "adequate and feasible" access must be guaranteed.
When Alaska became a state in 1959, section 4 of the Alaska Statehood Act provided that any existing Alaska Native land claims would be unaffected by statehood and held in status quo. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Yet while section 4 of the act preserved Native land claims until later settlement, section 6 allowed for the state government to claim lands deemed ...