Homesteading's Legacy is Written on the Land

Look around you. The impact of the Homestead Act is clearly visible. Grain elevators, fertilizer plants, housing developments, state highways, modern farms – these and other features are tangible evidence of the Homestead Act’s success in settling the West.

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El Paso Lower Valley Missions/ Cordova Island/ The City and Coun

El Paso Lower Valley Missions

Ysleta Mission -- 1681. Ysleta, the oldest community in Texas, claims the most steadily cultivated plot of land in the U.S.

Socorro Mission -- 1682. Regarded as the oldest active parish church in the U.S. Has a ...

Planters Path to their Landing Place

1630 - 1930

The old planters, Roger

Conant, John Woodbery and

John Balch used this path

from their homesteads to the

cove at the head of Bass river.

Marker is on McKay Street.

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Land Between The Rivers

Surveyors’ maps of 1824 and 1846 of Tipton County marked the Indian Portage Trails through Tipton, the junction between the Indiana water ways.

[[ Maps on Left Side of Plaque ]]

To Wabash River Waters

Kokomo Trail - - - (Northwest)

Peru Trail - ...

Architectural History of the Maryland Agricultural College

The College Park Campus began on this hilltop. In 1856, Charles Benedict Calvert of Riversdale gave 420 acres for the founding of Maryland Agricultural College. The original College building was the Barracks, a beautiful six-story gothic structure completed in 1859 ...

Cleveland Theater District

The Theater District, bound by Chester Avenue, Prospect Avenue, East 18th, East 9th and East 12th Streets, came into being at the turn of the 20th century, when Cleveland emerged as a thriving metropolis. Built between 1890-1928, the area hosted ...

Bearpaw Shale and the Inland Ocean

The black shale rocks seen in this area represent the muddy sediments deposited by the last ocean to exist in Montana. The shale, known by geologists as the Bearpaw Shale contains fossils of sea-going creatures that lived and died some ...

The Promised Land

I have caused thee to see it

with thine eyes,

but thou shalt not go over thither.

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Proclamation of Emancipation gave the military authority to enlist “Such persons of suitable condition…into the armed service of the United States” and the ...

The Island Church

Built in 1863, St. Wenceslaus Church served families who came chiefly from Bohemia and Germany. The little church, significant in Wisconsin’s architectural heritage, closed in 1891. It still opens for special Masses.

Marker is at the intersection of Island Church Road ...

The Dutch and Governors Island

Governors Island

The Dutch East India Company commissioned Henry Hudson to identify a northwest passage to the Indies. As a part of that effort, Hudson entered New York Bay on September 11, 1609 in his vessel The Half Moon and ...