The Bancrofts once owned 400 acres in the Ygnacio Valley, across the bay from San Francisco.
Known as Freedman, these blacks are descended from slaves once owned by the Nation.
Perhaps this explains why Michael Jackson, Nicholas Cage and Alice Cooper once owned snakes.
Ewert had bought the shell, which was once owned by Hakki Yaman Namli , a Turkish financier.
Billionaires can afford private islands, bottles of wine purportedly once owned by Thomas Jefferson and sports teams.
He now lives in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in a house once owned by his late first wife.
They were made for the Pitt Rivers family, who once owned much of the village of Burton Bradstock.
It could also be that the Osbournes once owned the Beverly Hills estate.
"The Entertainers" tour strolls still-vibrant Montmartre, the quartier where both Josephine Baker and Ada "Bricktop" Smith once owned clubs.
The open-pit mine, which was once owned by Anaconda, has sat abandoned since 1978 after Anaconda sold the property.
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And it's not just Americans who crave guitars once owned by rock stars.
Prior to Freud's purchase of the painting in 2001, it was once owned by Hollywood star Edward G Robinson.
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Following up on a tip, police recently dug up a well and the property once owned by Debruhl's family.
The third Facebook cofounder among the ranks is 28-year-old Eduardo Saverin who once owned a one-third stake in Facebook.
Ms. Pratt, a real-estate broker in Westchester and Dutchess counties, once owned a large two-bedroom co-op in the East 80s.
Mr. Ulibarri, a former newspaper printer in Denver, moved here in 2009, also taking over a home once owned by his parents.
He once owned 2% of Zaporizhstal, but he didn't dare buy more.
The diamond was once owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad, who was proclaimed the richest man in the world by Time magazine in 1937.
Winfrey's challenge was to reclaim a bit of the cultural spotlight that she once owned before abandoning her syndicated stardom for the cable netherworld.
That means investors in most funds that sold shares in May and June won't ever know how much Facebook stock their funds once owned.
Rasmussen, bought their 200-acre parcel in Concord in part because of its history: It was once owned by descendants of the Ralph Waldo Emerson family.
Here, at the centre of the town, not far from Christ Church Cathedral, stood the Crown Tavern, a 14th-century pub once owned by Shakespeare's friend John Davenant.
Eight of the ten freest lands were once owned by Britain.
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Thomson's historical connections to the British newspaper establishment--it once owned the Times of London--and reputation for hands-off stewardship will no doubt have helped Thomson in negotiations.
Our doctors will be salaried employees, more beholden to the rules that hospitals erect to manage their activities than the medical practices that they once owned.
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Mrs Jones, who lives in a cottage on the common once owned by her grandfather, said the land had been restored over the past 10 years.
Hard to beat for traditional elegance is a pair of pearl drop earrings from 1972 by Bulgari that were once owned by film star Elizabeth Taylor.
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Stoney Bank Nurseries took a more rural path with its version of Hidcote Manor, a property in the Cotswolds once owned by a prominent plant collector.
Stoney Bank Nurseries took a more rural path with its version of Hidcote Manor, a property in the rural Cotswolds once owned by a prominent plant collector.
The historic inn is just one of 15 surviving homes once owned by a signer of the U.S. Constitution, and the only one that welcomes overnight guests.
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