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 land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated...

The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales...

This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. Land-grant institutions are often...

The Maxwell Land Grant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant, was a 1,714,765-acre (6,939.41 km2) Mexican land grant in Colfax County, New Mexico...

concessions and land grants in Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish Concessions of land were made to...

The Lafayette Land Grant 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...

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...

Grant Land is the northern lobe of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Situated on the north coast, Cape Columbia, it is the northernmost point of Canada...

The Fisher–Miller Land Grant was part of an early colonization effort of the Republic of Texas. Its 3,878,000 acres covered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2)...

Land grants in New Mexico and Colorado were awarded to individuals and communities by the Spanish and Mexican governments to encourage settlement and...

of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) is a research, policy, and advocacy organization of public research universities, land-grant institutions...

Amarilla Land Grant in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado consists of 594,516 acres (2,405.92 km2) (929 sq miles) of mountainous land. The government...

scholarship opportunities in the oceanic Sea Grant and agricultural Land Grant fields. The catch-all term Space Grant refers back to these previous federal programs...

Agriculture are partners in the initiative. The centers were established at land-grant universities to serve different geographic regions of the United States...

The Atrisco Land Grant (merced) of 1692 is one among many Spanish land grants in New Mexico. It is in the Atrisco Valley (Valle de Atrisco) south of Albuquerque...

Indian Land Grants were land tracts granted to various Indians (Indigenous peoples of North America) by Treaty or by United States Congressional action...

was a tax-free land grant given in the form of either partial or whole villages to the Charanas by rulers in medieval India. These grants were given in...

Grant, Colorado Grant-Valkaria, Florida Grant, Iowa Grant, Michigan Grant, Minnesota Grant, Nebraska Grant, Ohio, an unincorporated community Grant,...

or private company. The land patent is not to be confused with a land grant. Patented lands may be lands that had been granted by a sovereign authority...

Railroad land grants in the United States made in the 1850s to 1870s, were instrumental in the building the nation's railway network in the Central United...

pattern of land ownership in the earliest British settlements in what is now eastern Canada. When the Crown granted land to settlers, the land grant normally...

to be her Indian Secretary, showered him with honours, and obtained a land grant for him in India. The close platonic relationship between Karim and the...

Tierra Amarilla Land Grant was created in 1832 by the Mexican government for Manuel Martinez and settlers from Abiquiu.: 352–353  The land grant encompassed...

meridian and the Base line in a given region. Land grant: Historically a land grant is an area of land to which title was conferred by a predecessor government...

newly arrived settlers with land titles granted by New York. Ultimately, a group of settlers with New Hampshire land grant titles established the Vermont...

1, 2008). The Grant That Maxwell Bought. Sunstone Press. ISBN 978-0-86534-652-9. William A. Keleher (January 2008). Maxwell Land Grant. Sunstone Press...

(Coahuila and Texas) during the Texas Revolution. Del Valle obtained a land grant from the Mexican government, which led to the founding of Galveston, Texas...

organized mass emigration. The land for the emigrants was to be purchased by the Adelsverein or secured through land grants from the Republic of Texas. On...

number of Agricultural and Mechanical Universities created by the Morrill Land-Grant Acts: Alabama A&M University Florida A&M University Louisiana State University...