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: a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract
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Examples of homestead in a Sentence
They decided to farm the old homestead.
Recent Examples of homestead from the Web
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In Harris County, a homestead exemption could reduce the value of a property by 20 percent.
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The median tax bill would increase $165, excluding any homestead exemption or the effects of Kenney’s proposed rate increase.
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Some homes in Lake County do use propane tanks instead of connecting to a natural gas line, but those tend to be more rural-like homesteads than a development like River Glen, said Ald.
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For the owner of a homestead-exempt property valued at $151,000, that's an increase of $36.10 a year, bringing the annual tax bill to $74.33.
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The closed casket will be on display Monday and Tuesday in a corner of the Graham homestead, which was built in 1927 on the family’s dairy farm on Park Road and was moved to the grounds of the Billy Graham Library in 2006.
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Central is similar to the Hanka Homestead down in Askel, about 50 miles south, where eight abandoned buildings of a Finnish farming homestead are preserved as a walk-through, visit-ready ghost town by a volunteer association.
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MillerCoors first targeted the homestead, offices and the malt house of the 19th-century brewery for demolition last March.
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That’s because the tiny outpost near Homer, where the Allbrights homestead (in real life, Hannah’s family runs a travel lodge in the same general area) has citizens who help one another and show up to share the work.
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First Known Use of homestead
before 12th century
Other Government and Politics Terms
: to acquire or occupy as a homestead
: to acquire or settle on land under a homestead law
Examples of homestead in a Sentence
They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.
Recent Examples of homestead from the Web
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The center of the community’ The 23-acre site, known as The Hill, was part of a 160-acre first homesteaded in 1891, Angus Hill and his descendants raised sheep there.
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Meekins, 32, is the grandson of Russ Meekins Sr., a member of the first Alaska Legislature who homesteaded with his wife Adele in what is now Mountain View.
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Tempering the haute with the homesteaded, the opulent with the bracingly simple, Beran and his crew rejigger expectations of what a tasting menu can be.
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His great-great-grandfather migrated from Finland in the 1890s and homesteaded on a 474-acre lake.
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His parents homesteaded and lived on a ranch raising animals, miles away from any town and living through the depression.
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Michael Edward Lowry, one of three children of Robert Lowry and the former Helen White, was born on March 8, 1939, in the tiny town of St. John in eastern Washington, where his family had homesteaded in 1882, before statehood.
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The couple homesteaded in a pool house next door to Mr. Peralta’s beloved grandmother, with whom Ms. Howard immediately bonded.
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Bonine, who owned the land, divided it into 1-acre lots and offered it to African-Americans to homestead in exchange for clearing the property.
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First Known Use of homestead
1867
Other Government and Politics Terms
HOMESTEAD Defined for English Language Learners
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: a house and the farmland it is on
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: a piece of government land that a person could acquire by living on it and farming it when the western part of the U.S. was being settled
HOMESTEAD Defined for Kids
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: a home and the land around it
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: a piece of land gained from United States public lands by living on and farming it
homesteaded;
homesteading
: to acquire or settle on public land for use as a homestead
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homesteader
\ˈhōm-ˌste-dər\ nounLaw Dictionary
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: the home and adjoining land with any buildings that is occupied usually by a family as its principal residence
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: an estate created by law in a homestead especially for the purpose of taking advantage of a homestead exemption
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: a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract
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