In the west, dwellings varied from single story wooden homesteads to straw huts. Elder commonly grows near farms and homesteads. They purchased many of the homesteads occupied by original settlers who sold out after 1930. From this base they managed to plunder surrounding farms and torch the homesteads. Later, because of the railway, some of these homesteads grew into prosperous towns. Among them three Neolithic homesteads were discovered. Around 40,000 homesteads and business houses were damaged. Most of the land of new homesteads was still covered with timber. This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia. Those he did not demolish were turned into homesteads or warehouses. The settlement also exists over much of the island, consisting largely of widely separated homesteads. Black laborers would be among those eligible for the free homesteads. It is Ashbury who looted their home (along with many other homesteads). Coconuts and betel nuts were forcefully taken from Hindu homesteads. They were never really popularized outside of their immigrant homesteads.