JC,

I love cobble stone.  When Ken, et al and I were in Germany I spent a
couple hours each of three days in Munich watching the installation of
granite cubes at a huge intersection.  They were using the traditional
intersecting arc pattern, laid on sand atop crushed stone.  What was
great is that they had six teams working from different starting points
and as they met up the arcs were perfect, no cutting, no splitting.  I
have worked on several projects over the years, but none would qualify
as restoration although on one we used reclaimed stone.  I read an
article somewhere on the New Jersey Landmarks Conservancy doing a
restoration of an historic street.

When my father in-law was nine years old, 1931, he and all the young
boys in the Fair Haven section of New Haven would spend from school
finish to dinner time hauling wood blocks, square street pavers, soaked
in creosote that were being removed to redo the streets, back home for
heating fuel.  He was very proud, as this was the first activity he
could remember where he had a critical part in the family's well being.
He loved to tell of the day he broke his leg doing the work and the
neighborhood boys brought him, not fire wood, back home in the wheell
barrow.

Best,
Leland

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Has anyone experience with restoration of historic cobblestone?

-jc

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