Who formulated  the grid-style street plan and when was it ratified by the board of commissioners?
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The Commissioners' Plan for Manhattan, also known as the Grid Plan, was adopted in 1811 by the Common Council of the city.  It mandated a gridiron layout for the expansion of Manhattan's street network, which, up to that time had evolved haphazardly.  The plan was authored by the Commissioners; no one person is credited with its development.
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Islamabad ......\n\nA commission was accordingly constitued in 1958 and entrusted with the task of selecting a suitable site for the National Capital with particular emphasis on location, climate, logistic, defence requirements, aesthetic, scenic and natural beauty.\n\nAfter the extensive research, feasibility studies and thorough review of various sites, the commission recommended the area Northeast of Rawalpindi. After the finaldecision of Cabinet the die was cast and there was no turning point.\n\nA Greek firm Doxiadis Associates drew up a master plan triangular in shape, based on a grid system, with its opex towards the Margalla Hills. The planners envisaged Islamabad eventully absorbing Rawalpindi entirely and stretching well to the West of Grand trunk road.
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I believe that is the province of the U.S.Post Office, based on the town grid, number of land plots, early settlers, etc. It is not the same all over the country.
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Boston\n\nEstablished in 1848, the BPL was the first publicly supported municipal library in America\n\nLATER THAT DAY:\nIn 1833 as you are asking for it looks like The Peterborough Town Library, established 1833.
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may 29,1790\n\n\n~thanx for the points~
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A map graph is what is also known as a grid system.  This is a standard grid of up and down (north and south) drawn lines and left and right (east and west) drawn lines creating a grid of intersecting lines for the purpose of demonstrating actual location.  A standard grid system is in use today which uses Latitude and longitude.  If you were choosing to make a map you would need to determinee analogs to the prime meridian and equator for your map, make these your starting points, then determin how broad you would like your grid to be and then draw parallels to these starting lines and you will have a complete grid system.
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http://www.donsmcclureconsultants.com/concept_016.htm\n\nTry that one.  But you can just google "Henry Blair inventor"
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Check out this website I hope it helps.\nwww.publiclands.org/explore/site.php?search=YES&back=Search+Results&id=1337
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When laying out streets for the suburbs of Chicago, the rivers, hills, highways, existing roads, and railroad right of ways caused street names to change and streets to disappear as new neighborhoods were built.\n\nVestiges of 17th and 20th can still be seen in nearby Chicago and Cicero respectively.\n\nSee the cool Google satellite map below:
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It was George Washington!!!\n\nhttp://www.state.nj.us/njfacts/flag.htm
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Try a map from Rand McNally:\n\nhttp://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/direction
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try correlating a street map with the addresses. you can plan the walk accordingly.
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In 1899 the Sixth and Seventh Municipal Districts were for the first time lighted by electricity. Hitherto they had depended upon gas as an illuminant. The rest of the city had enjoyed the advantages of electric lighting since 1887. Gas was introduced into New Orleans, as we have seen, in 1824, through the efforts of James H. Caldwell. Encouraged by the success of the experiment, Mr. Caldwell in 1834 organized the New Orleans Gas Light and Banking Company, with a capital of $300,000, which was subsequently increased to $600,000. The charter of this corporation gave the city the right to acquire its plant at the end of forty years. But in 1875, when this opportunity presented itself, the municipality was unable to take advantage of it. The old company was merged into a new corporation known as the Crescent City Company, which had recently obtained from the State Legislature a charter to run fifty years, until 1925. The gas for the upper part of the city was supplied by the Jefferson City Gas Light Company, with which the city had a contract that expired in 1899. By 1900 the city streets were illuminated exclusively by electricity.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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The use of grid lines on maps (latitude and longitude) was first suggested by the Greek astronomer Hipparcus about 300 years before Christ. He was the first who devised a method for fixing the location of places on earth by observation of the the sun, moon and stars. He worked out the mathematics of spherical trigonometry, which allowed the results of these observations to be plotted on an earth which he knew already to be a sphere.\n\nLatitude can be found easily by measuring the height of the sun at noon. The measurement of longitude is not so simple as you need an accurate clock.
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Historical Maps of the London Borough of Southwark\n\nMaps of Walworth, Bermondsey, Borough and Bankside, Camberwell and Denmark Hill, Dulwich, Peckham Rotherhithe and Walworth
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Have you checked this planning office site?\n\nNote the declaimer. These are not the "offical" copies and maybe out of date.\n\nhttp://www.co.bonner.id.us/planning/landuse.html