Saturday, March 31, 2012

Midwest towns cannot give land away to modern homesteaders

MARQUETTE, Kansas (Reuters) - In Marquette, Kansas an ice cream cone is $1.09, haircuts start at $10 and land is free. The land draws a lot less interest than ice cream or haircuts. In a modern day version of President Abraham Lincoln's 1862 Homestead Act that gave free land to settle the vast American interior, Marquette is among a dozen struggling central Kansas towns offering free lots to anyone who agrees to build a house
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Midwest towns cannot give land away to modern homesteaders
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