Furlong the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was forty rods, an acre four by 40 rods, or four rods by one furlong, and thus 160 square rods. At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 percent longer than the foot of today. When England changed to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and
Grant Furlong from 1922 to 1926 and again in 1941 and 1942. He served as postmaster of Donora from 1933 to 1938. Furlong was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944. He resumed the practice of medicine, and was elected sheriff of Washington County, Pennsylvania, serving from 1945 to 1961. Retrieved on 2009-02-22 Grant Furlong Robert Grant Furlong (January 4, 1886 – March 19, 1973) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Furlong was born in Roscoe, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the State Teachers College in California,