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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.
English: Relief location map of Nebraska, USA. Geographic limits of the map: N: 43.8° N; ... Nebraska; Homestead National Historical Park; Ice Box (arena) Ithaca ...
The Lincolns moved to this location, west of Decatur, Illinois, from Indiana in March 1830. Using local logs, they constructed a 18-by-18-foot (5.5 m × 5.5 m) log cabin on the site. It was here that Abraham split rails for his father's 10-acre (4.0 ha) field, and also "hired out" to split rails for neighboring pioneer farmers, inspiring his ...
Location County Description; 1: 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.
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26]
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The area of the national forest is 116,079 acres (181.373 sq mi). The forest is managed as part of the U.S. Forest Service's Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, from ranger district offices in Halsey, Nebraska. The national forest is entirely within Cherry County, Nebraska.
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