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Contains 1,781 combined acres of old grown forest [2] Buchanan: Bedford, Franklin, & Fulton: 71,683 acres (29,010 ha) [3] Clear Creek: Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer & Venango: 16,716 acres (6,765 ha) [4] 1919, as Kittanning State Forest: Name changed 2007 Cornplanter: Crawford, Forest, & Warren: 1,585 acres (641 ha) [5] Named in honor of ...
This was the beginning of the State Forest system. [1] The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began purchasing tracts of land for what is now Moshannon State Forest on September 28, 1898. [2] The first purchase was 352 acres (142 ha) on the banks of Montgomery Run to the north of Clearfield. It was purchased for just $65.45 to settle a delinquent tax ...
In 1916, Congress passed the Chamberlain–Ferris Act, which revested the remaining 2,800,000 acres of land to the United States government, and compensated the railroad at $2.50 per acre from an account, the Oregon and California land grant fund, funded by timber sales from the land. Oregon counties affected by the revestiture of land were ...
The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.
Upon Oregon's admission to the union, the federal government ceded to the state two sections of each township to generate revenues for a Common School Fund, a trust fund for support and maintenance of public schools. 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) had previously been allowed to Oregon by an 1841 act of Congress, and 5% of all proceeds from the sale ...
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Rothrock State Forest: Box Huckleberry Site: April 1967: Perry: public/state Tuscarora State Forest: A 10-acre (4.0 ha) natural area which preserves a rare colony of box huckleberry over 1,000 years old. Cook Forest State Park: November 1967
The Huffington Post reached out to historians across the country to create a list of women who deserve more recognition for their accomplishments.