tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post2326916534184424988..comments2024-03-26T17:43:56.256-04:00Comments on piccolo's hash: I just had an old classmate Facebook post that in about 1915piccolohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185649590699727649noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post-76543840672718713782013-10-14T17:26:58.589-04:002013-10-14T17:26:58.589-04:00A lot of the land you speak of was given for next ...A lot of the land you speak of was given for next to nothing as a result of the Homestead Act. You were given a shot at ownership if you could 'prove up'.piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02185649590699727649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post-80565582609842630102013-10-14T02:20:24.463-04:002013-10-14T02:20:24.463-04:00We also had, around then, exhausted the monetary s...We also had, around then, exhausted the monetary source which required a new source of funding. Before then, the funds came from the massive amounts of land the country was able to sell....and that was pretty well gone by that time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04487900516964106904noreply@blogger.com