Broadway runs on a township line from the federal land survey done in the
1800's. The land survey had basically nothing to do with the lines of
lattatude (45 degree of latatude). Township lines are one mile apart.
Sheldon Mains, Seward, Minneapolis
(Way too much of a urban planning/geography/map geek)
>It does run along (or extremely close to) Broadway. I'm not sure if it was
>done on purpose or not.
>
>Bravo to Tom and Audrey and RT (who is right about the plaque)
>
>Sara Strzok
>Map Library
>
>At 01:42 PM 6/8/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>I believe it is along Broadway and that it was built there on purpose!
>>
>>
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