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The program was created to provide low-rent homesteads, including a home and small plots of land that would allow people to sustain themselves. Through the program, 34 communities were built. [2] Unlike subsistence farming, subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment. [3]
Wellington A. Clark was a native New Yorker. In the winter of 1837, he traveled to northwest Indiana by way of ship from Cleveland to Chicago. After arriving in northern Indiana he settled on a farm south of Crown Point. In 1846, he and his wife, Mary C. Hackley, built “The Old Homestead”.
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 16.47 square miles (42.7 km 2), of which 15.88 square miles (41.1 km 2) (or 96.42%) is land and 0.59 square miles (1.5 km 2) (or 3.58%) is water. [4] Boot Lake is in this township.
Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and intended citizens government land to live on and cultivate. Although the ...
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Cleveland Township is one of nine townships in Whitley County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,324 (down from 3,398 at 2010 [ 3 ] ) and it contained 1,398 housing units.
Century Farm and Ranch Program [11] 1972 40 Idaho State Historical Society: Illinois Centennial and Sesquicentennial Farms [12] 1972 Illinois Department of Agriculture: Indiana Hoosier Homestead Award Program [13] 1976 20 Indiana State Department of Agriculture: Iowa Century Farms [14] 1976 Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship ...
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