The traditional definition of an acre is 22 yards (4 rods) by 220 yards (a furlong). Not coincidentally, cricket wickets are 22 yards apart. So if you want to envision an acre, imagine a rectangle that wide and 10x as long.
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The reason the traditional definition of an acre is so long and thin is that oxen are hard to turn.
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Interesting
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I think, strictly speaking, it's the plough that's hard to turn, as oxen don't come with the handy hydraulic plough-lift that modern tractors have.pic.twitter.com/IjNE5bv5kj
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This is honestly the most interesting thing I learned today.
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Thats why they gave settlers 40 acres and a mule. Fewer 3 point u-turns
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Paul, you are the gift that keeps on giving
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And a Roman pace (yard) was the distance a centurion could move in two steps while fully loaded. Which was about 5 feet, leading to a mile being 5000ft. Rome had it's shit together. No "distance light travels in .0000001 seconds" nonsense.https://petersmagnusson.org/2009/09/15/why-are-there-5280-feet-in-a-mile/ …
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And then we go full circle when we learn the modern mile is 5280 feet because it allows a square mile to be an even multiple of an acre.
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Finally after years and years of visiting family farms in Minnesota I can see what an acre is in my minds eye. Thanks haha
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