8 sentences with “acres”

The largest of these estates, at 160,000 acres, was granted to Robert Livingston in 1686.

To encourage industry, he gave each male immigrant fifty acres of land, tools and supplies for a year.

The palace grounds cover some 2,000 acres, or just over 3 square miles (by comparison, Central Park in New York City is a mere 843 acres in size).

To help encourage immigration to his colony, Penn promised fifty acres of land to people who agreed to come to Pennsylvania and complete their term of service.

Surveyors would divide the land into townships of six square miles, and the townships would be subdivided into thirty-six parcels of 640 acres each, which could be further subdivided.

The city also contained 120 earthen mounds or pyramids, each of which dominated a particular neighbourhood and each of which was home to a leader who exercised authority over the surrounding area. The largest mound covered 15 acres.

Europeans now had access not only to vast quantities of precious metals, but also to vast new natural resources - from huge fish stocks to millions of acres of fertile land - that were to reinforce European power for centuries to come.

The erection of 100 acres of slate, rose-colored brick and chevron board village constitutes Ford's tribute to the past; his attempt to preserve that peaceful, candle-lit America which he himself, more than anyone else, set about destroying.