The Homestead Act of 1862 transformed the world. Millions were invited to file claims including families, women, immigrants, and formerly enslaved people. Over 10 percent of the United States was homesteaded! The land, long inhabited by indigenous cultures, changed forever. Homesteaders created settlements and farms, drove industrial advancement, and built our nation chasing the American Dream.
What you’ll hear
49 places to explore in this park.
- A Legacy of Change, wayside exhibit
- A Prairie Reborn, wayside exhibit
- Birds of the Freeman Homestead, wayside exhibit
- Blackdom New Mexico
- Boundaries of Freedom, wayside exhibit
- Cutting Corn and Mowing, wayside exhibits
- Daniel Freeman Homestead
- Daughters of the American Revolution Monument
- Dearfield Colorado
- Deep Roots in the Earth, wayside exhibit
- Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company
- DeWitty Nebraska
- Digging Up, wayside exhibit
- Do You Live Near a Homestead? - wayside exhibit
- Empire Wyoming
- Farm Implement Room
- Freeman School
- Getting Around, wayside exhibit
- Good Land to Live On, wayside exhibit
- Grain Growers Highway, wayside exhibit
- Historic Osage Orange Hedgerow
- Hodgeman County Colony, Kansas
- Homesteading's Legacy is Written on the Land, wayside exhibit
- Is All Barbed Wire the Same? - wayside exhibit
- Land: Commodity or Community? - wayside exhibit
- Life Without Trees, wayside exhibit
- Making Rope, wayside exhibit
- Native Plant Display
- Nicodemus Kansas
- Palmer-Epard Cabin
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, wayside exhibit
- Planting Seeds and Oiling the Hogs, wayside exhibits
- Restored Tallgrass Prairie
- Roads to Success, wayside exhibit
- See What They Saw, wayside exhibit
- Shelling Corn, wayside exhibit
- Simple Living? - wayside exhibit
- Soil-from Rich to Ruin to Recovery, wayside exhibit
- Success From the Land, wayside exhibit
- Sully County Black Homesteader Community
- The Brick School, wayside exhibit
- The Living Wall
- Walk in Their Shoes, wayside exhibit
- Who Grows There? - 2 - wayside exhibit
- Who Grows There? (HC) - 2 - wayside exhibit
- Who Grows There? (HC) - wayside exhibit
- Who Grows There? - wayside exhibit
- Winnowing, wayside exhibit
- Working for Water, wayside exhibit
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