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Roads were formed in the following order:

  1. mud foot paths made by Native American hunting parties, usually along ridges up to end of 1700s
  2. mud tracks in towns and on people's properties, no wider than 1 wagon
  3. First Stone road in Eastern Pennsylvania - Forbes Road - was constructed in 1758 from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to the French Fort Duquesne
  4. hay or other grains and even clothing fabrics thrown on muddy tracks
  5. broken rocks laid on muddy tracks
  6. "reddog" laid on muddy tracks - reddog is formed from burning coal at high temperatures, creating a sturdy "rock" with red to maroon coloring - from 1800s to 1970s or longer
  7. after oil was drilled in wells (late 1800s), they could make petroleum products such as automobile tires, early 1900s
  8. They could heat tar and spray it on roads, then apply a layer of gravel. This method is still in use.
  9. From learning to heat tar, they could make mounds of heated, gooey asphalt which was manually shoved and applied to a road bed after grading. Rolling and compression was done manually. Asphalt started being used after WWII. But it was more expensive than heated tar liquid and gravel preparations.
  10. Cement poured roads came in with making highways and toll roads, about 1965-69. Example: I-76 in PA
  11. However, even today, they still use asphalt patching. Rural areas still use tar and gravel which is cheaper for townships to maintain their roads. Coal produced reddog for roadways lessened after coal works closed down.
  12. Typically, you can tell what roads are state maintained (cement with asphalt patches), versus town (asphalt paved), versus rural or township (tar and gavel, or asphalt as a special expenditure).
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The Romans road are famous because they were paved. This had a military purpose. Their roads were not paved from the beginning. The first paved road, the Appian way, was built in 312 BC to speed up movement of troops to the front in the Second Samnite War. They also made the movement of supplies to the troops at the front or in garrisons easier and quicker.


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Ancient Rome had the first system of paved roads. However they were not the first paved roads, they were the first system of paved roads. System is the key word here. The ancient Egyptians had what is believed to be the first paved road in the Old Kingdom which was during the age of the pyramids from 2600 to 2200 BC. It was unearthed going from a quarry to the pyramid building site and it is thought to have been used to move the stone blocks easier. Another oldie was found on Crete, dated to about 2000 BC. Both of these ancient roads were not part of a network, they were simply paved roads used for a specific purpose for a specific distance.


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Ingredient of road pavment?

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What is a paved road?

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What was Detroit's first paved road?

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