land grant
noun
: a grant of land made by the government especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The estate that came to be known as Richland Farm was part of a land grant obtained May 10, 1719, by Thomas Worthington and his brother-in-law, Henry Ridgley, according to a 1905 book by J.D. Warfield. 
Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2022 The property has a long, rich history; now owned by the University of Virginia, the land was part of Virginia's first land grant, dating back to 1734. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022 More than two hundred years ago, Anzaldua’s ancestors settled on the Texas side of the river, on a Spanish land grant of more than half a million acres. Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022 The family bought Brookfield Farm in 1983, shifting dairy operations from land in Meriden and Wallingford near I-91, where Greenbackers had been farming since 1723, under a colonial land grant from the King of England. Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022 Primland, which covers 12,000 acres, is located 3,000 feet up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a former land grant where Cherokee Indians once roamed. Emily Nunn, Outside Online, 3 June 2019 The exhibit will focus on Maria Juana de Los Angeles who, in 1845, received a Mexican land grant of 2,174 acres from Governor Pio Pico, according to Robert Lerner, historian at the Valley Center History Museum. Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022 The wealthy jet-setter paid $10 million in 1974 for the property, which encompasses California’s last undivided 19th century Mexican land grant. San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022 And like everything related to the bust, the loss was divisive: The land was part of the original Santa Cruz land grant of 1695, established for Indigenous and Hispano communities along New Spain’s northern frontier. Alicia Inez Guzmán, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2021 See More
Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2022 The property has a long, rich history; now owned by the University of Virginia, the land was part of Virginia's first land grant, dating back to 1734. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022 More than two hundred years ago, Anzaldua’s ancestors settled on the Texas side of the river, on a Spanish land grant of more than half a million acres. Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022 The family bought Brookfield Farm in 1983, shifting dairy operations from land in Meriden and Wallingford near I-91, where Greenbackers had been farming since 1723, under a colonial land grant from the King of England. Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022 Primland, which covers 12,000 acres, is located 3,000 feet up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a former land grant where Cherokee Indians once roamed. Emily Nunn, Outside Online, 3 June 2019 The exhibit will focus on Maria Juana de Los Angeles who, in 1845, received a Mexican land grant of 2,174 acres from Governor Pio Pico, according to Robert Lerner, historian at the Valley Center History Museum. Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022 The wealthy jet-setter paid $10 million in 1974 for the property, which encompasses California’s last undivided 19th century Mexican land grant. San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022 And like everything related to the bust, the loss was divisive: The land was part of the original Santa Cruz land grant of 1695, established for Indigenous and Hispano communities along New Spain’s northern frontier. Alicia Inez Guzmán, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above