(U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XII, p. 392 ff.) AN ACT to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. Be it enacted, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived ...

The Homestead Act, signed by Lincoln on May 20, 1862, embodied a radical promise: free land for the masses. Until then the federal government had generally sold its unoccupied property ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A group in Colorado has fenced a parcel of U.S. Forest Service Land in an attempt to claim the land under the Homestead Act of 1862. According to the Montezuma County Sheriff’s ...

However, white widows or white women managing estates could sometimes qualify. The 1862 Homestead Act was an inflection point that codified, likely for the first time the notion (without the ...

This park interprets the impacts of the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act of 1862 was passed by Congress and signed ...