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Mount Hope Cemetery

Drake

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04-13-2015, 07:50 AM

(04-13-2015, 06:59 AM)Spokes Wrote: Very cool map. Nice find.

Looking at the map scale, anyone know what a "chain" is?

Back in our British days, pre 1977 it was a pretty standard unit of measurement. A chain is:

a unit of length. It measures 66 feet, or 22 yards, or 100 links, or 4 rods (20.1168 m). There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. An acre is the area of 10 square chains (that is, an area of one chain by one furlong). The chain has been used for several centuries in Britain and in some other countries influenced by British practice.

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