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They (unsurprisingly, given the source) didn't even dig very deep on Philadelphia. There are some very nice cobblestone streets there, and even one paved with heartwood blocks.
Seattle has some cobblestone streets around Pike Place Market as well as some random cobblestone streets around Capital Hill.
An interesting history lesson, Seattle (as well as many other cities in the past) had streets made of red brick. However, red brick was too slick for horses to carry cargo up Seattle's steep hills. Therefore, city planners put cobblestone roads on all the steepest roads of the city because cobblestone is easier for horses to grip and have traction when carrying heavy cargo (and especially in the rain). So Seattle had red brick streets for the more level and tame roads, and cobblestone roads on its steepest roads.
Today, the few roads made of cobblestone in Seattle that you can see today are on very steep roads which the city has preserved in order to honor the city's techniques in hill-management (as well as add some historic charm). The red brick roads, however, have all been paved over (throughout the city you can see the asphalt crumbling away and underneath it the red bricks still lie). The only place you can see red bricks for a proper traffic road (as far as I can recall) is in Pike Place Market.
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Cool thread. The Old Port Exchange in Portland, Maine has some have charming cobbled alleyways. There definitely is a mystique about cobblestoned roads that sort of transports you to another chapter in the city's history keeping them frozen in time.
That looks just okay--aren't there better streets in the village?
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