We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
(l-r) Dave, Kay and Brent Cromley are siblings and grandchildren of homesteaders David and Alice Cromley. David and Alice, originally from England, homesteaded in 1892 on Peoples Creek. They recently brought about 20 other great and great, great grandchildren to tour the areas where their forbearers first lived in Blaine County.
By Steve Edwards
BCJ News
Reporter's note: Through the various Homestead Acts, some 1.6 million homesteaders settled nearly 10% of the total area of the U.S., mostly in the western states. The families of many of those homesteaders still live on parts of the original tracts settled by their forbearers. Others, for a variety of reasons, left the land. Of the latter group, it's not unusual their families still have an interest in the places where their relatives first settled and current generations make trips to learn about the lives of their ancestors.
David and Alice Cromley homesteaded, in 1...
