Gift of real estate – land or its use privileges – made by a government or other authority
For feudal land grants, see fief.
A land grant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in relatively unpopulated countries; the process of awarding land grants are not limited to the countries named below. The United States historically gave out numerous land grants as Homesteads to individuals desiring to prove a farm. The American Industrial Revolution was guided by many supportive acts of legislatures (for example, the Main Line of Public Works legislation of 1863) promoting commerce or transportation infrastructure development by private companies, such as the Cumberland Road turnpike, the Lehigh Canal, the Schuylkill Canal and the many railroads that tied the young United States together.
A landgrant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as...
concessions and landgrants in Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish Concessions of land were made to...
The Maxwell LandGrant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda LandGrant, was a 1,714,765-acre (6,939.41 km2) Mexican landgrant in Colfax County, New Mexico...
The Lafayette LandGrant was a gift by the government of the United States of just over 23,000 acres (93 km2) of real estate in central Leon County, Florida...
Railroad landgrants in the United States made in the 1850s to 1870s, were instrumental in the building the nation's railway network in the Central United...
Landgrants in New Mexico and Colorado were awarded to individuals and communities by the Spanish and Mexican governments to encourage settlement and...
Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act. Sea Grant programs and colleges are not to be confused with land-grant colleges (a program instituted...
Amarilla LandGrant in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado consists of 594,516 acres (2,405.92 km2) (929 sq miles) of mountainous land. The government...
GrantLand is the northern lobe of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Situated on the north coast, Cape Columbia, it is the northernmost point of Canada...
Rancho Tularcitos was a 26,581-acre (107.57 km2) Mexican landgrant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa...
Agriculture are partners in the initiative. The centers were established at land-grant universities to serve different geographic regions of the United States...
scholarship opportunities in the oceanic Sea Grant and agricultural LandGrant fields. The catch-all term Space Grant refers back to these previous federal programs...
The Atrisco LandGrant (merced) of 1692 is one among many Spanish landgrants in New Mexico. It is in the Atrisco Valley (Valle de Atrisco) south of Albuquerque...
1, 2008). The Grant That Maxwell Bought. Sunstone Press. ISBN 978-0-86534-652-9. William A. Keleher (January 2008). Maxwell LandGrant. Sunstone Press...
Indian LandGrants were land tracts granted to various Indians (Indigenous peoples of North America) by Treaty or by United States Congressional action...
The land patent is not to be confused with a landgrant. Patented lands may be lands that had been granted by a sovereign authority in return for services...
pattern of land ownership in the earliest British settlements in what is now eastern Canada. When the Crown grantedland to settlers, the landgrant normally...
meridian and the Base line in a given region. Landgrant: Historically a landgrant is an area of land to which title was conferred by a predecessor government...
(Coahuila and Texas) during the Texas Revolution. Del Valle obtained a landgrant from the Mexican government, which led to the founding of Galveston, Texas...
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