homesteaded
Established a farm
Homesteaded is the past tense of homestead, meaning to settle and farm land, especially under government programs that granted ownership to those who developed it: My great-grandparents homesteaded in Nebraska in the 1880s.
The word evokes pioneer settlement of the American West, though homesteading programs existed into the late twentieth century.
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- plainsBroad, level grasslands
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- outpostRemote military station
trappers · westward · buffalo · sod house · dugout · claim · quarter section · public land
Written property conveyance
- titleFormal honorific or name
- claimStatement of ownership or truth
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- acreageAmount of land owned
parcel · allotment · tract · survey · filing · land office · residency requirement · improvement
Simple wooden dwelling
- dwellingPlace of residence
- settlerOne who colonizes territory
- familyRelated people together
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
community · neighbors · township · rural · self-sufficient · domestic · hearth · homeplace
Cultivation of land, livestock
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
plowing · irrigation · sowing · husbandry · pasture · orchard · poultry · vegetable garden
wilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
outpost · trappers · westward · buffalo · sod house · dugout · claim · quarter section · public land · unsettled
deed
Written property conveyance
acreage · parcel · allotment · tract · survey · filing · land office · residency requirement · improvement · preemption
cabin
Simple wooden dwelling
pioneer · community · neighbors · township · rural · self-sufficient · domestic · hearth · homeplace · household
agriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- harvestingGathering mature crops
livestock · plowing · irrigation · sowing · husbandry · pasture · orchard · poultry · vegetable garden · root cellar
- Homestead ActFederal land distribution legislation
- historic homesteadsSignificant early residential properties
- pioneer homesteadsLand grants to settlers
- prairie homesteadsFrontier land grants farmed
- rural homesteadCountryside residence with grounds
- homestead lawLegal residence protection
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