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  2. Southern Homestead Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Homestead Act opened up 46,398,544.87 acres (about 46 million acres or 190,000 km 2) of public land for sale in the Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

  3. List of plantations in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.

  4. Land Act of 1820 - Wikipedia

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    The Land Act of 1820 (ch. 51, 3 Stat. 566), enacted April 24, 1820, is the United States federal law that ended the ability to purchase the United States' public domain lands on a credit or installment system over four years, as previously established. The new law became effective July 1, 1820 and required full payment at the time of purchase ...

  5. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away ...

  6. Alabama real estate bubble of the 1810s - Wikipedia

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    The Alabama real estate bubble of the 1810s was a real estate bubble centered on Huntsville, caused by increasing cotton prices resulting from demand from English textile manufacturers, relatively high cotton yields in Alabama, as well as general speculation. In 1817, property in Madison County sold for around $2 per acre, while in 1818 it sold ...

  7. An elderly Alabama woman living on a plot of land thought to be worth over $20 million will soon be kicked out of her longtime home after an ownership tussle with private investors.