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Circa 1905. "Franklin Street -- Richmond, Virginia." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Who popularized the concrete sidewalk, and when.
Connecting the intellectual dots and surfacing the roads with the stuff was left to a later generation of civic ponderers. Or to be generous to those inhabitants of a different age, perhaps they had determined that horseshoes weren't up to cantering on concrete.
Those distinctive stone columns, so cool!
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