ivan salis
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road replacement --old brick road found -- bricks marked - graves b ' ham ala
their doing a road rebuilding project here in jacksonville , fla on lenox street --- while taking my neice to her gymnastics class (the road work is in front of it ) I noticed that there were large vitrified red brick road style paving bricks that at one time had been the road -- the current modern asphalt road had simply been built on top of the older brick road with a layer of dirt between the two --the modern current "replacement " program is cutting below both the current asphalt and the old brick road area ---plowing the bricks up and loose --- opening up "virgin" ground that not seen the light of day in the last 95 years -- (I came home and did a bit of internet checking and and found out that the road was one of the first "paved" roads in jacksonville fla --- the graves brick company of birmingham alabama closed down in 1920 and its time frame was 1890 to 1920 --only 30 years but that in those 30 years that it was very active indeed-- making lots of the bricks that were used in many of florida's various brick paved roads before other cheaper road building methods made building brick roads cost prohibitive --the city of jacksonville brick paved the road in question in 1912 --- so for the last 95 years the roadbed area has been covered up (who knows what goodies might lie buried there?) -- I "plucked" a couple "graves b' ham ala" bricks for safe keeping -- the guys will not be working on the road this weekend so I can get free time -- I'll check out the open ground (that way I will not be bothering anyone or in their way in anyway -- anything found will be "saved" items that would otherwize be lost since the paving monster will seal it under for another 50 years or so ------ theres lots of old high quality "paving type bricks" some one could made a heck of a barbeque pit from them --just have to pick them up before the plowed under or taken off to the dump --- tuesday their closing the road to do the work --so time to hop to it ---
opps forgot to add there was a nearby historical battle and the retreating troops most likely took this old road as they retreated ---
Ivan
their doing a road rebuilding project here in jacksonville , fla on lenox street --- while taking my neice to her gymnastics class (the road work is in front of it ) I noticed that there were large vitrified red brick road style paving bricks that at one time had been the road -- the current modern asphalt road had simply been built on top of the older brick road with a layer of dirt between the two --the modern current "replacement " program is cutting below both the current asphalt and the old brick road area ---plowing the bricks up and loose --- opening up "virgin" ground that not seen the light of day in the last 95 years -- (I came home and did a bit of internet checking and and found out that the road was one of the first "paved" roads in jacksonville fla --- the graves brick company of birmingham alabama closed down in 1920 and its time frame was 1890 to 1920 --only 30 years but that in those 30 years that it was very active indeed-- making lots of the bricks that were used in many of florida's various brick paved roads before other cheaper road building methods made building brick roads cost prohibitive --the city of jacksonville brick paved the road in question in 1912 --- so for the last 95 years the roadbed area has been covered up (who knows what goodies might lie buried there?) -- I "plucked" a couple "graves b' ham ala" bricks for safe keeping -- the guys will not be working on the road this weekend so I can get free time -- I'll check out the open ground (that way I will not be bothering anyone or in their way in anyway -- anything found will be "saved" items that would otherwize be lost since the paving monster will seal it under for another 50 years or so ------ theres lots of old high quality "paving type bricks" some one could made a heck of a barbeque pit from them --just have to pick them up before the plowed under or taken off to the dump --- tuesday their closing the road to do the work --so time to hop to it ---
opps forgot to add there was a nearby historical battle and the retreating troops most likely took this old road as they retreated ---
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? so I can dig in the street...RIGHT?
