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Map thread

This is a map of Disney World. Drawn by Walt Disney when he discovered it in the late 1960s after trekking across the wilderness in Florida for weeks. It's amazing that all this was there, just waiting to be found.

;)

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vs. modern
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Penn Street and Liberty Street still exist as Penn Avenue and Liberty Avenue.
It appears that Market Square is still in the same place too.
The Point is now a park with the outline of Fort Duquesne in place and the Fort Pitt Blockhouse from 1764 still stands.

At one segment in time, Point State Park was a highly industrialized section of town.
 
Adelaide is one of the very few preplanned cities. No one was even allowed to pitch a tent until Colonel Light had finished his design. He was pretty clever, all the main roads he mapped out nearly 200 years ago are still wide enough for modern traffic.
 
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Adelaide is one of the very few preplanned cities. No one was even allowed to pitch a tent until Colonel Light had finished his design. He was pretty clever, all the main roads he mapped out nearly 200 years ago are still wide enough for modern traffic.
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This has nothing to do with anything, but I know a woman named Adelaide, it's a pretty name, a good word.
 
Forest Cat said:
There is also a different version of it, Adelheid. That and Adelaide are newer versions of the original ancient German name, Adalheidis.
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Of course Australia was a British colony back when Adelaide was first designed. The British royal family had strong German ties, all those royal families were grossly interbred. So Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide.

The main street running north/south through the centre of the city is King William. The large square in the centre is named Victoria and has a statue of her. The four smaller squares in the CBD were named after Colonel Light and his 3 contemporaries at that time - Light, Whitmore, Hurtle and Hindmarsh.

All the other streets are named after high ranking British dignitaries from the early 1800s.

[Edit] Forgot - 4 streets don't fit that naming convention but they're fairly self explanatory - East Terrace, West Terrace, North Terrace and South Terrace.
 
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