Gram, Mom, and I went to the Homestead Monument to search for some ancestry stuff. It was fun! We stopped and got some drinks first.
And chocolate filled crescents :P
Arrived!
To plow one acre of land you walked 10 miles! :O
This is how much land from Iowa was given away in the homestead act.
And Nebraska
This is what a common homesteaders cabin in Nebraska would have looked like. A family of twelve lived in this cabin! Could you imagine that? Those long snowy winter or the wet rainy days. What would you do?
Native prairie grasses
Poor fellow!
Searching for some ancestry stuff!
I love seeing the different building styles from state to state. :)
Dinner was yummy!
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