Quote Originally Posted by Llama View Post
In the diagram immediately above, that alley line looks like it could be drawn along the true north-south axis, whereas everything else would just be parallel to surrounding streets.
Actually, that is not the north-south axis, the true axis is along the diagonal line at the bottom right corner of the second map in the post above yours, which is a gridline of the Public Land Survey System that present-day Conant divides from the Ten Thousand Acre grid.