Homestead

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A homestead originally means a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings.

By extension it can mean any small cluster of houses, e.g. in an African homestead.

Concepts

From this original meaning many related concepts have arisen:

• Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres
• Homestead principle, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of unowned property through living on it
• Homestead Acts, several United States federal laws that gave millions of acres to farmers known as homesteaders
• Homestead exemption (U.S. law), a legal program to protect the value of a residence from expenses and/or forced sale arising from the death of a spouse
• Homesteading, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency as practiced by a modern homesteader or urban homesteader

Places

Places actually named "Homestead":

Australia

• The Homestead (Georges Hall, NSW), historical house
• "The Homestead" resort at El Questro Wilderness Park

United Kingdom

• The Homestead, Sandiway, a house in Cheshire, England, now called Redwalls

United States

• The Homestead (Flagstaff, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Coconino County, Arizona
• Homestead, California
  • Homestead, Kern County, California
  • Homestead, Modoc County, California
  • Homestead, Riverside County, California
  • Homestead, San Joaquin County, California
• Homestead, Florida
• Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base, an U.S. Air Force base near Miami, Florida
• Homestead-Miami Speedway, an auto racing track in Homestead, Florida
• The Homestead (Evanston, Illinois), listed on the NRHP in Cook County, Illinois
• Homestead, Iowa
• Homestead Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
• Homestead, Missouri
• The Homestead (Haverstraw, New York), listed on the NRHP in Rockland County, New York
• The Homestead (Geneseo, New York), NRHP-listed, a historic house in Livingston County, New York
• The Homestead (Saranac Lake, New York), listed on the NRHP in Franklin County, New York
• The Homestead (Waccabuc, New York), listed on the NRHP in Westchester County, New York
• The Homestead at Denison University, a student-run intentional community in Granville, Ohio
• Homestead, Oklahoma
• Homestead, Portland, Oregon
• Homestead, Pennsylvania
• Homestead, Wisconsin
• Homestead Township, Michigan
• The Homestead (Hot Springs, Virginia), a luxury resort and a National Historic Landmark listed on the NRHP in Bath County, Virginia
• Homestead, Braintree
• Homestead High School (disambiguation), the name of several high schools in the United States

Other

Other various applications of the name:

• Homestead (meteorite), a meteorite that fell in Homestead, Iowa in 1875
• "Homestead" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 2001 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• Homestead, a 1998 novel by American writer Rosina Lippi
• Homestead Records, a record label founded in 1983 and based in New York City
• Homestead Records (1920s), an American record company of the 1920s
• Homestead Strike, an 1892 labor confrontation at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania
• Homestead Technologies, a web-hosting service based in Menlo Park, California
• The Homestead, an artwork by John Steuart Curry

See also

• Hamstead (disambiguation)
• Hampstead (disambiguation)
• Hempstead (disambiguation)