Editing Lawrence, Kansas (section)

===Streets===
The early settlers of the town named the city's main road "[[Massachusetts Street|Massachusetts]]" to commemorate the [[Massachusetts|New England Emigrant Aid Company's home state]].<ref>Brackman (1997), p. 22.</ref> As laid out on the first map of Lawrence, the north–south streets to the east of Massachusetts Street were named for the original thirteen colonies running from the geographic south to the north, with only Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets out of order (guaranteeing Massachusetts Street the honor of the central business corridor), while those streets west of Massachusetts Street were named for states in order of admittance to the Union. East–west streets were named after "men who had done something in the sacred cause of liberty".<ref name="LOC HOF1">{{cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82006863/1855-01-27/ed-1/seq-2/|title=The Kansas herald of freedom. (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854–1860, January 27, 1855, Image 2|date=January 27, 1855|publisher=Library of Congress}} Page 2, Section ''"Chart of Lawrence"'' (4th column, in the center).</ref> Over the years, however, this plan became marred. A number of streets were placed in the wrong order, North and South Carolina were consolidated into a single Carolina Street near [[Lawrence High School (Kansas)|Lawrence High School]], and the names of nine states (Alaska, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wyoming) were never given to streets. The state street naming system was abandoned after the establishment of Iowa Street, which runs through the center of Lawrence. In 1913, the east–west streets were renamed to numbered streets.<ref name="lawrenceks7">{{cite web|url=http://www.lawrenceks.org/documents/Ordinances/Ordinances-0900s/Ord973.pdf|date=November 9, 2006|title=Ordinance No 973 (manuscript)|author1=E. U. Bond (Mayor)|author2=R. D. Brooks (City Clerk)|access-date=November 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140828222332/http://www.lawrenceks.org/documents/Ordinances/Ordinances-0900s/Ord973.pdf|archive-date=August 28, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Brian |title=What's in a (Street) Name? |url=http://www.tauycreek.com/2015/04/whats-in-street-name.html |website=Tauy Creek |access-date=July 9, 2018 |date=April 23, 2015}}</ref>