Sample Nominations - Areas of Significance - Exploration/Settlement

Ashley Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery, Ashley, North Dakota ref# 15000807

Photograph by Rebecca E. Bender, courtesy of North Dakota State Historic Preservation Office

Ashley Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery
North Dakota, Reference number: 15000807

Areas of Significance: Exploration/Settlement, Agriculture, Social History, Agriculture, Religion
Period of Significance: 1906-1932

As documented in the nomination, this cemetery is the only permanent physical reminder of the McIntosh County Jewish farming community, the largest Jewish settlement in North Dakota. North Dakota had the fourth largest number of homesteaders of any state in the country.
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Meador Homestead, Mississippi

Photograph by Clarence Edward Smith courtesy of Mississippi State Historic Preservation Office

Meador Homestead
Mississippi, Reference number: 10000885
Areas of Significance: Exploration Settlement, Architecture
Period of Significance: 1885-1945

The property is associated with European American settlement in the Piney Woods region of Mississippi, which grew along with an expanded transportation network. The dogtrot style log house was built with logs cut from the property and is typical of first generation dwellings in the area.
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