The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capital, but lost the bid to Lansing.

Land speculators, such as Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, and business owners quickly set about rebuilding the city.

Land speculators also contributed to this by buying land cheap and selling it for expensive prices.

The speculators, organized into the Los Angeles Suburban Home Association, including Harry Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, Moses Sherman, a streetcar line owner, and Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a real estate promoter with ties as far back as the " Land Run of 1889 " ( the Great Oklahoma Land Rush ), bought Mr. Van Nuys out and prepared to " sell " the San Fernando Valley.

The Canyon de Ugalde Land Company, formed by land speculators in San Antonio in 1837, began purchasing headright grants in Uvalde County in the late 1830s.

In 1854, Jorgenson sold his claim to the Carver Land Company, a group of seven speculators, who planned to plat and develop a town.

It was revealed that the Yazoo Land Act sale to private speculators had been approved in return for bribes and after the scandal was exposed, voters rejected most of the incumbents in the next election, and the next legislature, reacting to the public outcry, repealed the law and voided transactions made under it.

Land speculators expected no rise in values when the government could not defend its borders nor protect its frontier population.

Land speculators built up the site, but the city of Madison, Wisconsin was selected as capital instead.

Land speculators and settlers objected to the transfer of western lands previously claimed by the colonies to a non-representative government.

Land speculators, already on the financial brink, worried that the French would eventually gain control of Spanish-controlled Louisiana, and shut off American access to the Mississippi River.

Land speculators bought in the area and subdivided blocks at varying sizes, leading to a wide class diversity within the suburb.

Land speculators looked to the Ohio Country as a place where lands might be acquired and then resold to immigrants.

Land speculators flooded into Texas.

The Land Ordinance of 1785 gave encouragement to land speculators, surveyors, and settlers who sought to gain new land from the Indians who may or may not have had a claim to it.

Land speculators such as Col William Archer after whom Archer Ave. is named and Frederick Petersdorf began buying land surrounding the settlement.

Land speculators and con-men nevertheless continued to promote the sale of portions of " Carver's Grant " for another half century.

When Towery asked General Land Office commissioner Bascom Giles about these irregularities, Giles denied involvement, attributing the irregularities to local land speculators.

Some of the land occupied by these squatters was made available to smaller farmers after the passing of the Robertson Land Acts in 1861.

‘ The Beardies ’ later introduced other squatters to the best runs in the area to become known as the Land of the Beardies or Beardie Plains.

Registration of land under the Land Registration Act 2002 affords property owners some protection against squatters as well as avoiding the need to produce old documents each time a property changes hands.

Robertson is best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robertson Land Acts of 1861, which sought to open up the selection of Crown land and break the monopoly of the squatters.

The murder of Jews began during the Crusaders ' travels across Europe and continued in the Holy Land.

It was here, in 1929, that he began serialising the first of the Adventures of Tintin, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.

Eastern Land ) was the original name for the Swedish realm's eastern part, but already in the 15th century Finland began to be used synonymously with Österland.

Hasidic Old Yishuv | immigration to the Land of Israel began in the early movement, including in 1777 the Hasidic leaders Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, Avraham of Kalisk and their followers

Accumulating wealth in this manner throughout Christendom and the Outremer, the Order in 1150 began generating letters of credit for pilgrims journeying to the Holy Land: pilgrims deposited their valuables with a local Templar preceptory before embarking, received a document indicating the value of their deposit, then used that document upon arrival in the Holy Land to retrieve their funds.

Albert began his task by touring the Empire, preaching a Crusade against the Baltic countries, and was assisted in this by a Papal Bull, which declared that fighting against the Baltic heathens was of the same rank as participating in a crusade to the Holy Land.

In 1230 the Knights settled in the Chełmno Land and began the Prussian Crusade.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

Although Heinlein had previously written a few short stories in the fantasy genre, during this period he wrote his first fantasy novel, Glory Road, and in Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, he began to mix hard science with fantasy, mysticism, and satire of organized religion.

On 11 September 1977, police loaded him in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities.

His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges and the first of the major prophets who began to prophesy inside the Land of Israel.

In 2001, TV Land began showing reruns of Chico and the Man.

In 1853, the Chicago Land Company, of which Ogden was a trustee, purchased land at a bend in the Chicago River and began to cut a channel, formally known as North Branch Canal, but also referred to as Ogden's Canal.

However, the remaining vast tracts of unsettled land were often used as a commons, or, in the American West, " open range " As degradation of habitat developed due to overgrazing and a tragedy of the commons situation arose, common areas began to either be allocated to individual landowners via mechanisms such as the Homestead Act and Desert Land Act and fenced in, or, if kept in public hands, leased to individual users for limited purposes, with fences built to separate tracts of public and private land.

1800 after the Holland Land Company extinguished Indian claims to the land, acquired the title to eight western-most counties of Western New York, surveyed their holdings, established towns, and began selling lots.

" Land of Hope and Glory " is sung by the crowd as the teams assemble for kick off ; this began as a response to the New Zealand team's haka.

After returning to the Roosevelt in May, Peary in June began weeks of further agonizing travel by heading west along the shore of Ellesmere, discovering Cape Colgate, from the summit of which he claimed in his 1907 publications he had seen a previously undiscovered far-north " Crocker Land " to the northwest on June 24 of 1906.

The new team began playing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, calling themselves the Lakers in honor of the state's nickname, " Land of 10, 000 Lakes ".

The festival pays tribute to Seymour's apple industry, which began in the 1840s, with Seymour being called " The Land Of The Big Red Apple " around the turn of the 20th century, when Webster County produced more than 50 percent of the state's apple crop.

Settlement began in earnest when the Grand Bay Land Company began offering ten acre lots for sale in the early 1900s.

Calexico began as a tent city of the Imperial Land Company, was founded in 1899, and incorporated in 1908.