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  2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) - Wikipedia

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    Treaty of Fort Wayne; Type: Land Purchase: Signed: September 30, 1809: Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana Territory: Condition: Transfer of money and goods to natives; Natives to allow American settlement of purchased land; Contingent on the later acceptance of the Kickapoo and Wea.

  4. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Land grants went to railroad construction companies to open up the western plains and link up to California. Together with the free lands provided to farmers by the Homestead Law the low-cost farm lands provided by the land grants sped up the expansion of commercial agriculture in the West. The 1862 Homestead Act opened up the public domain lands.

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Louisville and ...

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    The books were kept open by the Louisville and Nashville for all the entries relative to the operation of the property of the Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad Company (of 1885), including additions and betterments, sale of bonds, results of operations, and liability for nonnegotiable debt, representing advances from the Louisville and Nashville.

  6. Property - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, rent, sell, exchange, transfer, give away, or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things, [2] as well as to perhaps abandon it; whereas regardless of the nature of the property, the owner thereof has the right to properly use ...

  7. History of the Knights of Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Late in 1953 it was learned that the land upon which Yankee Stadium was built was for sale. On December 17, 1953, the Order purchased the property for $2.5 million and then leased it back for 28 years at $182,000 a year with the option to renew the lease for three additional terms of 15 years at $125,000 a year. [135]

  8. Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia

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    In March 1859, Grant freed Jones by a manumission deed, potentially worth at least $1,000 (equivalent to $34,000 in 2023). [84] Grant moved to St. Louis, taking on a partnership with Julia's cousin Harry Boggs working in the real estate business as a bill collector, again without success and at Julia's prompting ended the partnership. [85]

  9. List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly : USA

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    The Income Tax space is also Pay 10% or $300, instead of the later Pay 10% or $200. Property values are omitted from the board (they were not printed on the original) – a Banker's Rate Card is included with those values, as well as Mortgage values, and the required interest and repayment rates if a property is mortgaged.