Founded in 1856, this company introduced a numbering system for U.S. highways in 1917
William Rand opens a small printing shop in Chicago's Loop, 
forming... [DOC] [TLE] The Origins of the US Numbered Highway System - Federal ... [PAR] But as the number of named trails increased, and as the number of ... formed in 
1911 to support a trail roughly following the historic trade route of the ... A 1917 
State law that required the creation of a State trunk highway system of ... Highway 
Officials (AASHO), newspapers, map and guidebook companies, and the public.