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Your land may have a direct connection to Iowa State University's history and Iowa’s land-grant legacy. The Morrill Act of 1862 granted 210,000 acres of land to the state for generating funds to build a land-grant university. Some of the land was sold, some was leased. Either way, the money generated helped fund Iowa State University.

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The federal land granted to Iowa under the terms of the Morrill Act of 1862 are all within our state; land in Iowa also was granted to 25 other states for their land grant colleges.