Once the center of a grand estate, the house now sits on a single acre surrounded by crumbling Victorians and modest tract houses.

Hundreds of people - or perhaps more than a thousand, no one really knows - are buried in this single acre of sloping earth.

Why, back in town there, there's single acres that earns more than fifty of ours in the old days.

But so far not a single acre has been purchased, and not a single new treatment plant has been built.

The harvesting season is typically between July 10 and August 10, with a single acre producing up to six tons in a harvest.

"We haven't bought a single acre in the preservation area, and now they are targeting it for clear-cutting."

"They'll never get their fat fingers on a single acre of Mercy land while I'm standing on it."

But like a tiny island in an ocean sits Melton's modest frame house on a single acre.

Neither the Federal Government nor the counties returned a single acre.

Animal and human manure was spread over the land, and about twenty tons might be used on the single acre if root crops were being grown.