[Redddog]

Originally Posted by Jayfar

…and by fun fact, you mean popular myth:

Revisited Myth # 54: Many houses and roads in America were built with bricks and stones carried here as ballast in the holds of ships.

Also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sett_(paving)

Son of a....!!!


Actually, the guy (a historian) who commented below that myth said this.....

".....Philadelphia began paving some streets (ostensibly at Mr. Franklin’s suggestion) in the 1760’s."