Homestead may refer to: *

Homestead (building) A homestead is an isolated dwelling, especially a farmhouse, and adjacent outbuildings, typically on a large agricultural holding such as a ranch or Station (Australian agriculture), station. In North America the word "homestead" historically re ...

, a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses * Nguni homestead, a cluster of houses inhabited by a single extended family, typically with a kraal attached * Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres *

Homestead principle The homestead principle is the principle by which one gains ownership of an unowned natural resource by performing an act of original appropriation. Appropriation could be enacted by putting an unowned resource to active use (as with using i ...

, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of unowned property through living on it *

Homestead Acts The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than of public land, or nearly 10 percent of t ...

, several United States federal laws that gave millions of acres to farmers known as ''homesteaders'' *

Homestead exemption The homestead exemption is a legal regime to protect the value of the homes of residents from property taxes, creditors, and circumstances that arise from the death of the homeowner's spouse, disability, or other situations. Such laws are found ...

(U.S. law), a legal program to protect the value of a residence from expenses and/or forced sale arising from the death of a spouse *

Homesteading Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale. H ...

, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency as practiced by a ''modern homesteader'' or ''urban homesteader''

Named places

Australia

Homestead, Queensland Homestead is a rural town and locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Homestead had a population of 38 people. Geography The Flinders Highway traverses from east to south-west through the local ...

, a town and locality in the Charters Towers Region * The Homestead (Georges Hall, NSW), historical house * "The Homestead" resort at El Questro Wilderness Park

United Kingdom

* The Homestead, Sandiway, a house in Cheshire, England, now called Redwalls

United States

* The Homestead (Flagstaff, Arizona), on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Coconino County, Arizona * Homestead, Kern County, California *

Homestead, Florida Homestead is a city within Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in the United States, U.S. state of Florida, between Biscayne National Park to the east and Everglades National Park to the west. Homestead is primarily a Miami suburb and ...

:* Homestead Air Reserve Base, a U.S. Air Force base near Miami, Florida :* Homestead-Miami Speedway, an auto racing track in Homestead, Florida *

The Homestead (Evanston, Illinois) The Homestead is a historic apartment hotel at 1625 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Opened in 1928, it was one of several apartment hotels built in Evanston in the 1920s. Popular in the early twentieth century, apartment hotels housed a mixt ...

, on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Evanston, Illinois * Homestead, Iowa * Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, in Florida *

Homestead Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Homestead Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 371 at the 2000 census. Homestead Township was organized in 1880, and named for the pioneer homestead farms within its borders. Geography Acco ...

* Homestead, Michigan, an unincorporated community *

Homestead, Missouri Homestead is a village in Ray County, Missouri, and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 192. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a tot ...

Homestead, New Mexico Homestead is a census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 47 as of the 2010 census. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of ; is land and is water. Demographi ...

The Homestead (Haverstraw, New York) The Homestead is a historic house on Hudson Avenue in the village of Haverstraw, New York, United States. It is one of the oldest buildings in the village, dating to the early 19th century. Since then it has been home to a number of prominent ...

, listed on the NRHP in Rockland County, New York *

The Homestead (Geneseo, New York) The Homestead in Geneseo, New York is a historic house that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is also a contributing property within the Geneseo Historic District, and is described in the district's National Hi ...

, NRHP-listed, a historic house in Livingston County, New York *

The Homestead (Saranac Lake, New York) The Homestead is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1890 and is a small, two-story, wood-frame dwelling with a gambrel roof in the Colonial Revival style. It features a large octago ...

, listed on the NRHP in Franklin County, New York *

The Homestead (Waccabuc, New York) The Homestead is a historic home located at Waccabuc, New York, Waccabuc, Westchester County, New York. It has five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The main house, known as The Homestead, was built between 1820 and 1822 i ...

, listed on the NRHP in Westchester County, New York *

The Homestead at Denison University The Homestead at Denison University is a student-run intentional community in Granville, Ohio. Founded in 1977 by a group of students and the biology professor Dr. Robert W. Alrutz, it is an evolving experiment in learning through living. Membe ...

, a student-run intentional community in Granville, Ohio *

Homestead, Oklahoma Homestead is a small unincorporated community in northern Blaine County, Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States ...

* Homestead, Oregon * Homestead, Portland, Oregon *

Homestead, Pennsylvania Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Monongahela River southeast of downtown Pittsburgh. The borough is known for the Homestead strike of 1892, an important event in the history of labor relation ...

* Homestead, Wisconsin * Homestead Township, Michigan * The Homestead (Hot Springs, Virginia), a luxury resort and a National Historic Landmark listed on the NRHP in Bath County, Virginia * Homestead High School (disambiguation), the name of several high schools in the United States * Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, a migrant children's detention shelter in Florida

Arts and media

* "Homestead" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), a 2001 episode of ''Star Trek: Voyager'' *''Homestead'', a 1998 novel by American writer Rosina Lippi *''The Homestead'', an artwork by John Steuart Curry *

Homestead Records Homestead Records was a Long Island, New York–based sublabel of music distributor Dutch East India Trading that operated from 1983 to 1996. While the record label was renowned for releasing work of artists such as Sonic Youth, Big Black, a ...

, a record label founded in 1983 and based in New York City * Homestead Records (1920s), an American record company of the 1920s *Homestead, fictional planetary migration company, Passengers * ''Homestead'' (film), a 2024 American post-apocalyptic drama film

Other uses

* Homestead (meteorite), a meteorite that fell in Homestead, Iowa in 1875 * Homestead Strike, an 1892 labor confrontation at the Carnegie Steel Company in