At 05:36 PM 2/27/02 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>numbering houses (which seems to be 18th century)
I would have ventured that it is much older than that, dimly recalling some
older maps from a small museum I once visited.
There's a difference between house numbers and street addresses. House
numbers, which number every house in a city or village starting at 1 are
the older system and I have been in places where these house numbers have
been maintained (although perhaps no longer used for postal delivery).
A./
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