Laura St. History?

[coredumped]

If anyone knows if those bricks become available I'd like to know - it would make a need bookshelf item!

[Dog Walker]

You might be able to do what we in Riverside did when they started removing the hex pavers from the sidewalks and pouring concrete.  Midnight requisition!  Every other house in Riverside has a stack of pavers in the back yard.  I covered an entire patio with them.

The city is also replacing a lot of the curbs in the old parts of the city with concrete when the widen or repave.  The originals are slabs of Georgia granite.  The city was throwing the granite curbs into the river as rip-rap, but I "liberated" enough of them to build a retaining wall and have enough left over for a water feature.  They are really heavy and require a backhoe or Bobcat to pick them up.

Find out what they are doing with the bricks or at least, where they are stacking them for disposal.

[coredumped]

Not a bad idea 
I'd want to make sure they weren't going to use them for something. I'll just have to keep an eye on it, I'm sure they're just going to dispose of them. Anyone know?

[fieldafm]

Via today's Daily Record:

"A few weeks ago, lawyer Ed Booth was working in his office at Independent Square on a Saturday afternoon. He looked out the window to check on the progress of the Laura Street project and something caught his attention.
Booth observed evidence of a brick street about three feet below ground level, revealed by excavation and rainfall. Since he’s also the president-elect of the Jacksonville Historical Society, Booth grabbed his camera and headed downstairs to make a visual record of the find.

According to historian Joel McEachin, the City’s principal historic planner, what the heavy equipment and heavy rain uncovered most likely dates to 1900-10. At that time, Laura Street ended in an industrial area of docks and warehouses. In the 1950s, a bulkhead was put in place to make way for the municipal parking lot where the Landing now stands. McEachin said that’s likely the last time anyone saw the brick street until Booth looked out his window.

McEachin also said that streets constructed of brick were considered state-of-the-art in the early 20th century. The material used to pave old Laura Street would be “vitrified brick,” meaning a glaze had been applied during the manufacturing process to make it waterproof and almost indestructible.

Soon after Booth photographed the urban archaeology, the exposed brick was covered again, and that’s a good thing, said McEachin.

“I think it’s great that they reburied it. That means it’s still preserved,” he said.

“I’m always on the lookout for historical artifacts,” said Booth. “It was fun to see the streets that our ancestors used to walk.”

[blizz01]

Hmm, No bricks for us.......looks like they'll be back in the "time capsule".

[coredumped]

ah well, next time thew move the statue