• Homestead Heritage Center & Prairie

    Homestead

    National Monument of America Nebraska

December 30,2012 Program Videos

On December 30, 2012 Homestead National Monument of America paid tribute to the 150th anniversaries of both the Homestead Act and the Emancipation Proclamation.

 
 
 
 
 

Did You Know?

Horse team

To "Prove up" a homestead the owner was required to make improvements including building a home and break the soil and plant a crop.
  -- Homestead National Monument of America