homestead entry

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the process of applying for and taking up land under the Homestead Act (def. 2).

Quotations

1883

To-day an application was made to cancel a homestead entry under circumstances, which promises to make it a test case.

1953

Homestead entries, numbering 7,800 in 1900, were 22,000 by 1902, and by 1906 reached 41,000.