WHERE DOES AMERICA BEGIN? Jamestown? Plymouth? Philadelphia? Wherever you place it, chances are good that East Liverpool, Ohio, did not make the short list. It's a small town hugging a curve in the Ohio River, roughly 40 mi northwest of Pittsburgh. But it was here-at the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (Point of Beginning)-that the ruthlessly efficient grid of land subdivisions that would define development patterns for most of the country began in the mid-1780s.
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