Homestead

Homestead or The Homestead may refer to:

Property-related

• Homestead (buildings), a single building, or collection of buildings grouped together on a large agricultural holding
• Homestead principle, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of unowned property through its use
• Homestead (small African settlement), a cluster of several single-family houses in southern Africa
• Homestead Act, an 1862 United States federal law that gave millions of acres to farmers
• Dominion Lands Act, an 1872 Canadian federal law which presented a Homestead (area) for $10 filing fee and proving the land.
• Homestead exemption, (USA) a legal regime to protect the value of a residence from expenses arising from the death of a spouse
• Homesteading, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency

United States geographical locations

Cities, towns, townships, villages

• Homestead, California (disambiguation)
  • Homestead, Kern County, California
  • Homestead, Modoc County, California
  • Homestead, Riverside County, California
  • Homestead, San Joaquin County, California
• Homestead, Florida
• Homestead, Iowa
• Homestead, Missouri
• Homestead, Oklahoma
• Homestead, Pennsylvania
• Homestead, Virginia
• Homestead, Wisconsin
• Homestead Township, Michigan
• Homestead Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Other

• The Homestead (Flagstaff, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Coconino County, Arizona
• The Homestead (Evanston, Illinois), listed on the NRHP in Cook County, Illinois
• The Homestead (Haverstraw, New York), listed on the NRHP in Rockland County, New York
• The Homestead (Geneseo, New York), NRHP-listed, a historic house in Livingston County, New York
• The Homestead (Saranac Lake, New York), listed on the NRHP in Franklin County, New York
• The Homestead (Waccabuc, New York), listed on the NRHP in Westchester County, New York
• The Homestead (Hot Springs, Virginia), a luxury resort and a National Historic Landmark listed on the NRHP in Bath County, Virginia
• The Homestead at Denison University, a student-run intentional community in Granville, Ohio
• Homestead High School (disambiguation), the name of several high schools in the United States
• Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base, an U.S. Air Force base near Miami, Florida
• Homestead-Miami Speedway, an auto racing track in Homestead, Florida
• The Homestead, Sandiway, a house in Cheshire, England, now called Redwalls

General

• Homestead (meteorite), a meteorite that fell in Homestead, Iowa in 1875
• "Homestead" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 2001 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• Homestead (novel), a 1998 novel by American writer Rosina Lippi
• Homestead Records, a record label founded in 1983 and based in New York City
• Homestead Records (1920s), an American record company that flourished in the 1920s
• Homestead Strike, an 1892 labor confrontation at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania
• Homestead Technologies, a web-hosting service based in Menlo Park, California

See also

• Hamstead (disambiguation)
• Hampstead (disambiguation)
• Hempstead (disambiguation)