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Experimental pavements had been tried for decades. Use had been made of stone in varied forms and shapes, wood, asphalt, coal-tar, cement concrete, iron, brick, India-rubber, shells, gravel, slag blocks, glass, leather, and hay. As late as 1898, Richmond had experimented with a pavement of compressed marsh grass. The grass was treated with a preparation of oil, tar, and resins, then compressed with hydraulic pressure into blocks about five inches square and bound together with wire. The blocks were laid on a heavily trafficked street. Richmond’s new pavement lasted only a few months.
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