The following is an excerpt from “Some Other Day: Remembering Empire” by the Empire Area Heritage Group, Second Edition, 1987. This excerpt features Dorothy Lanham’s visit with Sara Johnson and Jane Boomer.
The Dunn Farm Homestead deeds was approved in 1862 and was signed by Ulysses S. Grant. I believe it took five years of work on a homestead before it could be approved.
The area was taken away from the Indians and was opened up for homesteading just before the Civil War.
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