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land grant A grant of public lands by the government, usually for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Urban entrepreneurs, Wills argues, found themselves well-rehearsed by their predecessors to manipulate and profit from government-supported Indian removal, land grants, railroad development, and commercial and agricultural ventures, with the most successful assuming their place in the transportation networks, which "promised to link them with government handouts, with other profitable businesses, and with regional assets. His problem was that the amount of property--equal to the combined land of New England, New York and half of Pennsylvania--was too large to be bought for preservation reasons; and there were too many property rights issues intermingled in the corridors to allow the federal government to lapse the land grants. Davidson County, one of the fastest-growing areas of the frontier, originally refused to join the Franklin cause, since the area's remoteness precluded bother from North Carolina tax collectors and (more important) its land grants were issued from across the mountains. |
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