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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
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Homestead National Monument of America
Hands-On Arts and Crafts Demonstrations
 
Children learning to play marbles.
Homestead NM
Children learning to play marbles.
 
Young visitors pose with Park Ranger after making cornhusk dolls.

Homestead NM

Young visitors pose with Park Ranger after making cornhusk dolls.

Hands-on Homesteaders’ Arts, Crafts & More

Special events and programs engage the public in homesteading folk life. Try your hand at a new craft, take your children and grandchildren back to the earliest days of settlement, or learn about the American Indian cultures that predated the Homestead Act.

 
Demonstrator demonstrates how to tan a deer hide.

Homestead NM

Demonstrator demonstrates how to tan a deer hide.

Students and visitors participate in such diverse annual activities as the Heartland Storytelling Festival (May), Homestead Days (June), and Pioneer Days (October).
Trapper Preparing Skins
Programs & Events
There are many special programs and events throught the year
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National Parks celebrate special places! The Junior Ranger Gazette has the latest.
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Palmer-Epard Cabin  

Did You Know?
Under the Homestead Act, 270 million acres of land, or 10% of the nation, was given away. The only monetary payment for each 160 acre claim was an $18 filing fee. -- Homestead National Monument of America
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Last Updated: November 11, 2008 at 16:13 EST