Magoffin Homestead

Joseph Magoffin (1837-1923), son of James Wiley Magoffin, one of the founders of the city, settled in El Paso in 1856. He held many offices: Collector of Customs, County Judge, and Mayor for four terms. In 1875, six years before ...

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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Homestead Heritage Center

The Homestead Act of 1862 affected millions of lives in the United States and across the world. Homestead National Monument of America exists to document and present these powerful stories of transformation.

The Homestead Heritage Center keeps these stories relevant in ...

Do You Live Near a Homestead?

There’s a good chance you do – Homesteading reached three of every five states. Is yours among them?

The Homestead Act of 1862 offered people 160 acres of free land – if they were willing to live on it, farm it, ...

Nicholson Homestead

1835

Lakewood's oldest frame house.

Lakewood Historical Society

Courtesy of the Junior Board & the Fieg Sewering Co.

Marker is at the intersection of Detroit Avenue and Nicholson Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Detroit Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Wornall Homestead

Battle of Westport

Built in 1858 by John Wornall on his 640-acre farm, this house was in the center of heavy fighting on October 23, 1864. After the last Confederate charge to the north toward Westport was repulsed, this house ...

Glynn Homestead

Gov. Martin H. Glynn   1871 – 1924

Congressman, Comptroller,

Lieut. Governor, Governor,

Orator, Journalist,

a founder of the Irish Free State.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gilliland Homestead

House and barn erected in 1809 by

William Gilliland, Jr. (1768-1847).

1814 American militia encampment

prior to Battle of Plattsburgh.

Barn became the

Royal Savage Inn 1918 - 2002.

Marker is on U.S. 9 just north of Whiterill Road, on ...

Duke Homestead

Prosperity from War

When North Carolina became the last state to secede from the Union in May 1861, Washington Duke’s small farm and homestead here consisted of more than 300 acres. He grew typical crops such as corn, wheat, oats, and ...

“The National Homestead at Gettysburg”

This building was constructed in 1869 as a dormitory for “The National Homestead at Gettysburg,” a school for soldiers’ orphans established in 1866 in the brick building to your right. Among its first students were Alice, Frank and Frederick Humiston, ...