Genealogy: Land Grants and Deeds in Public Lands on Zoom
Saturday, December 5, 2020
1:30-3:30 p.m.
WPL@Home
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Public states are the ones outside of the thirteen colonies, Kentucky and Tennessee. Starting in Ohio, the federal government began selling public land in 1820 for $1.25 an acre. After acquiring cheap land from the government, settlers were free to sell the land as they moved further west.