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The two RV Gypsies visited The Homestead Heritage Park and Museum and learned about the Homestead Act of 1862 |
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The award winning Homestead Heritage Park opened in May 2007 to provide a place where the magnitude and world-wide impact of the Homestead Act of 1862 is being told.
The building was designed to represent the Homestead Act of 1862 with its spectacular views and unique roof line resembling a single bottom plow moving through the sod. The point of the roof points west. Even the parking lot is educational in nature. The park is one acre in size. |
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Along the sidewalk entrance to the building is the Living Wall of States; a physical representation of which states adopted the Homestead Act of 1862. |
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A homesteader had only to be the head of a household or at least 21 years of age to claim a 160 acre parcel of land. Each homesteader had to live on the land, build a home, make improvements and farm for 5 years before they were eligible to prove up. |
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The Homestead Act remained in effect until it was repealed in 1976, with provisions for homesteading in Alaska until 1986. | |
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State-of-the-art exhibits present homesteading in an interactive setting. Such topics as the Act's influence on immigration, agriculture, industrialization, native tribes, the tall grass prairie ecosystem and Federal land policies are presented in an educational and thought-provoking manner. Below is just a small sampling of what the museum has to offer. | |
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Even dogs had to work. |
The chart below shows the percentage of land that was successfully homesteaded in each state. |
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Views of the tall grass prairie and the barbed wire fence behind the Homestead Heritage Center. | |
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Behind the Homestead Heritage is a cabin typical of what was built in those days, and how they lived. | |
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The two RV Gypsies drove just a bit down the street from the Homestead Heritage Center and came to the Homestead National Monument of America and Education Center. There were birds watching their near-by nest while sitting on the security cameras. | |
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Printed on the wall outside the Homestead National Monument of America and Education Center there was a listing of celebrities whose relatives were homesteaders, but it was difficult to photograph that area because of the tall bushes that needed to be trimmed. There are an estimated 93,000,000 descendants of homesteaders in the world today. A building inside showed all types of old equipment. | |
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Menu for the two RV Gypsies in Nebraska. You may visit these four (4) sections in any order you choose. Of course the page you are on can not be chosen from here. |
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Entering Nebraska through Omaha | Veterans Memorial Park |
The Homestead Heritage Center (this page) |
Family in Nebraska |
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