During the early to mid-1970s the Federal Government teminated the leases on a number of rural homesteads including Lanyon, Cuppacumbalong and Gold Creek.

The original section of the cottage is among the earliest remaining rural homesteads in New South Wales.

The onset of the summer rains, coupled with the annual holiday season migration to rural homesteads, has worsened the problem.

In the 19th century the area became populated by European farmers as the area was divided into a number of rural homesteads.

During the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, Foster's songs envisioned placid rural homesteads; in the era of slavery, they imagined contented "darkies" working for benevolent masters.

After the Vietnamese invasion freed them, most Cambodians who had been forcefully resettled elsewhere in the countryside returned to the cities or to their original rural homesteads.

But a border of plants near a rural homestead put my display to shame.

Flanking the main road into Buxton are a number of rural homesteads.

As a boy the 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate divided his life between Washington, where his father was serving in Congress, and the family's rural homestead in Carthage, Tenn.

A1 Family of 6 Killed in Alabama Six family members, including a 62-year old woman and her teenage grandsons, were shot to death at their rural homestead near Rutledge.