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An acre used to be the amount of land an ox could plow in a day!

An acre used to be the amount of land an ox could plow in a day! The word acre comes from an Old English word that meant open field. Originally, that was pretty literally what an acre was: an open field and the amount of it that an ox could plow one sunny day.  An acre was considered to be a rectangle with one side that was one chain length and the other side that was one furlough length. Before measurements were more standardized, the size of an actual acre...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Saturday, 30 June, 2012