The city of Birmingham was planned by the directors of Elyton Land CO. The city was planned on an 1,160 acre land area before a single building was erected. The streets are laid out in a grid fashion, the most common pattern of streets seen in planned cities in United States. The streets of Birmingham were planned to be 80 to 100 feet wide, in order to keep the smoke out of the street, hence there has been little restructuring in the form of road widening since the formation of the city.
From west to east the streets are numbered, leaving the 20th street ...
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