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The certificate for the first homestead according to the Homestead Act signed on January 1, 1863. The Homestead Act was passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre tract of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had resided on and cultivated the land for five years after the initial claim.
Courtesy of the National Archives Records of the Bureau of Land Management. .
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