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Homestead National Historical Park, a unit of the National Park System known as the Homestead National Monument of America prior to 2021, commemorates passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, which allowed any qualified person to claim up to 160 acres (0.65 km 2) of federally owned land in exchange for five years of residence and the cultivation and improvement of the property.
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main features of the monument are a valley of the Niobrara River and the fossils found on Carnegie Hill and University Hill. The area largely consists of grass-covered plains.
Homestead National Historical Park: March 19, 1936: Beatrice: Gage: The first claim made under the Homestead Act of 1862. 2: Scotts Bluff National Monument: December 12, 1919: Gering: Scotts Bluff: A landmark on the Oregon and Mormon Trails.
The crushed limestone 6.5-mile Jamaica North Trail is mostly located within the park. South of Saltillo Rd, Jamaica North connects to the Homestead Trail corridor, which as of July 2012 reaches to Beatrice, Nebraska, and will ultimately extend to Marysville, Kansas. [3]
1887–1902 homestead of a farmer who promoted water conservation and Aermotor ... Freestanding office of Nebraska Poet Laureate John Neihardt from 1911 to 1920. Now ...
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The land Jamaica was previously situated on is now part of the Jamaica North Trail, named in honor of the town. The Jamaica North Trail is a public walking and biking trail which follows the path of the former Union Pacific rail line and is part of the Homestead Trail which connects downtown Lincoln, Nebraska to Marysville, Kansas. [6]
The Jamaica North trail connects to the Homestead Trail, which will ultimately extend 72 miles (116 km) from Lincoln's Haymarket District to Marysville, Kansas. The trail's surface is composed of crushed limestone and asphalt.