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Old Posted May 17, 2017, 8:51 PM
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Originally Posted by beyeas View Post
They repaved my street and redid sidewalks a couple of years ago, and when they tore up the sidewalk there were tons of cobblestones underneath. I grabbed about 10 before they were covered over again and kept them! Now I used them to hold my backyard gate open etc. It was pretty cool to find them.

I wonder what year the cobblestones are from? I guess you could approximate the year by the age of your neighbourhood. The south end would have been late 1800's, early 1900's depending on the street, similar to Dalhousie University (or so I assume).
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