He was said to own about five square miles at the maximum and to hold about 500 slaves by 1849.

In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury, a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road.

The family now owns 60,000 square miles spread through virtually ever section of Zaire.

At its peak the company owned 21 miles of railway line, and it also operated trains on some additional lines it did not own.

Morgan's railroad trust, for instance, owned all but 40,000 miles of track in America.

The various municipalities own another 23.5 miles, which leaves seven miles of access owned by the state.

The company owned 14 miles of railway line and its headquarters were at Sandown.

The city owns 400 square miles of watershed in the county, and is charged with protecting it.

It owns 18 miles of pipes under the streets of Downtown.

The Trust also owns four miles of access along Windermere lakeshore.