Livingston Manor was a subdivision built upon the lands surrounding the Livingston Homestead. The federal government issued tracts virtually free to settlers under the Homestead Act of 1862. He is the last person to receive title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green, that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier. There they built a log cabin, partially preserved today as the Daniel Boone Homestead. His father wants him to participate in growing crops on the meager family homestead. They established local institutions soon after arriving and filed for homestead lands. The William Cullen Bryant Homestead, his boyhood home, is now a museum. Afterwards, they decide to visit the old Hardesty family homestead. A flood destroyed the gristmill and the Crockett homestead. Its campus resides on part of the homestead of Thomas Jefferson Rusk. Filming took place in Homestead, Florida. Rolle was born in Homestead, Florida. Remains of a grist mill, homestead, and limekiln remain. Metz was born to Denise and Mark Metz in Homestead, Florida.