Sentences with phrase «century land grant»

His «21st Century Land Grant» plan would create a $ 5 billion endowment that he estimates would provide about $ 2 billion over 10 years for postsecondary education.

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The land grants to railroad barons after America's Civil War, for example created the largest American fortunes for the ensuing century.

You can also visit ruins of Loyalist cotton plantations, like the 18th - century Deveaux House on land granted to Colonel Andrew Deveaux in 1783 for protecting Nassau from Spanish invasion and occupation, and ancient railroad tracks stretching out to the sea.

For many centuries we took it for granted, that the Dutch were highly successful at maintaining one of the worlds most advanced agricultures on their farm lands several feet below sea level.

Farm land was granted to early American frontier farmers, and agriculture has been publicly subsidized since the early twentieth century.

Aligned with its mission as a land grant university serving the needs of the state, WVU established mining education, research, and extension programs nearly a century ago.

But by the turn of the 21st century, a ground rent became something more than a convenient figure to indicate a landlord and tenant relationship without much bearing on the actual value of the land: it became a means for a landlord to continue to extract money from a tenant throughout the term of a lease, regardless of the premium paid at the date of the grant.

The case presents a number of intriguing issues, among them the meaning of Article X, section 4 of the California Constitution and its application, if any, to lands for which title is derived from a provisional Mexican land grant confirmed by a federal patent issued in the 19th century.

In the USA, we have a system (albeit a rather wonky one) that has existed in some form or another since the 17th century when there were land grants in the 13 colonies from the crown of England.