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  2. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 - Wikipedia

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    The third instance of a privately developed grid in New York City came in 1788, when the long-established Bayard family, relatives of Peter Stuyvesant, hired surveyor Casimir Goerck to lay out streets in the portion of their estate west of Broadway, so the land could be sold in lots. About 100 acres (40 ha) accommodated 7 east–west and 8 ...

  3. 1811 in architecture - Wikipedia

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    Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 determines the grid plan of Manhattan.

  4. Grid plan - Wikipedia

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    A grid plan from 1799 of Pori, Finland, by Isaac Tillberg. The city of Adelaide, South Australia was laid out in a grid, surrounded by gardens and parks. In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. [1]

  5. John Randel Jr. - Wikipedia

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    The only known image [1] of John Randel Jr.; painted by an unknown artist, probably Ezra Ames. [2]John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an American surveyor, cartographer, civil engineer and inventor from Albany, New York who completed a full survey of Manhattan Island from 1808 to 1817, in service of the creation of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which determined that New York City – which ...

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  7. Simeon De Witt - Wikipedia

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    In 1802, De Witt produced a detailed map of the state of New York, which was then engraved by Gideon Fairman. [15] The map is said by historian Gerard Koeppel to have been "meticulously drawn" and to have "set a standard for American cartography; it is still considered 'the most important map ever made of the Empire State.'" [16] The map shows New York state to be primarily uninhabited, at ...

  8. Category:Images of New York (state) - Wikipedia

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  9. The Act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes passed by the 34th New York State Legislature on March 22, 1811, was the first law in the US giving a general authorization for formation of corporations. Whereas previously all corporations had to be formed by legislative charter, the 1811 act created a procedure for incorporation ...