Homestead Movement # 7
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Biker Ozzy
N 40° 17.604 W 096° 44.810
14T E 691512 N 4462759
Marker about the Homestead Act.
Waymark Code: WM4JR3
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2008
Views: 25
Marker reads as follows
HOMESTEAD MOVEMENT
Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator because his proclamation of 1862 gave freedom to the slaves. In that same year, he signed another extremely important document that gave land to free men. No single act had more effect on the Middle West and Great Plains than the Homestead Act of May 20, 1862. It brought tens of thousands of land-hungry settlers to the region that was to become the nation's breadbasket.
Millions of acres from the public domain became available. Under this law heads of families had only to pay a small filing fee and live upon and cultivate their 160 acres for five years. For some the rigors of frontier life were too great, but many others replaced the prairie grasses with grain, and built homes, often of sod, on land of their own.
The Homestead National Monument of America, a part of our National Park System, is located on the Daniel Freeman homestead seven miles west of this site. It commemorates this act and the policies of government that played a major role in the settlement of the West.
Historical Land Mark Council
North of Beatrice at airport on U.S. 77
Gage County
Marker 7
Marker Name: Homestead Movement # 7
City: no
Roadside: yes
Other: no
Web Address if available:: Not listed
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