| Display title | Homestead Records |
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| Date of page creation | 16:30, 5 February 2010 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | In 1862 the United States enacted a homestead law to encourage development of mostly-empty western federal lands and promote the yeoman farmer ideal. The original homestead law gave an applicant up to 160 acres (1/4 of a section) of undeveloped land in any federal-land state or territory. To obtain the land a settler had to: |