Our Pick
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The Homestead Act
1862
Gage County, Nebraska
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A hundred and sixty acres free to anyone who farmed it five years, which moved 270 million acres out of federal hands, a tenth of the country. This is the site of one of the first claims. The land it gave away had been taken from Native nations by treaty and force, and about 60 percent of claimants failed.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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