Greetings from the Homestead!
Homesteading?! The first things that might pop into your head are the Oregon Trail, the Wild West, and settlers flocking across the western US Territory to start a new life away from Eastern civilization where getting ahead was near impossible. In the 1860’s the first homestead act was passed by congress to encourage migration west in hopes of improving trade and the US economy. Families were required to work the land for a number of years before it was granted…