 We're here at Homestead National Historical Park in Beatrice, Nebraska. We're a National Park Service site dedicated to remembering the many legacies of the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act was an opportunity to earn 160 acres of land to any man, but also any woman if she was head of household and over 21 years of age. And this is 60 years before women could vote. They had a pathway to land ownership under this law. You also didn't have to be an American citizen to start this process.