Baltimoreans have trod on a wide range of surfaces since the 1700's, from dirt and wood to concrete and glasphalt.  This page offers an introduction to each.
	True cobblestones still survive in just a few minor locations, a drastic difference from just 100 years ago, when they were the dominant pavement of choice for the city.
	What is commonly referred to as "Cobblestone" is actually anything but.  Still, the charming Belgian Block surface still carries on many years after its prevalance in the city.
	Used primarily during the depression era, beautiful red and tan brick paving primarily became a foundation for later coverings of asphault.  However, many examples do survive today.
	Diminutive Central Avenue has enjoyed a wide range of personalities, from sleepy stream to busy railroaded industrial artery, to today's quaint forgotten street.  Explore the history of this neat road.
	Being "kicked to the curb" is not always so bad.  For the local historian, it can mean finding curious and unusual objects or inscriptions that offer clues to the city's past.
	What was once the city's Southernmost extremity was once a popular destination before being largely forgotten.  Despite a metamorphosis of the nearby area, clues still persist of the old road's past.
	A journey about town to take in the large and small among bridges within the city, from the monumental to the meager, as well as the abandoned.
	A somber tale of a rather unremarkable old street in the heart of redevelopment, its decades of resistance to imminent change, and its final succumbing to the forces of modernization.
	Though these "turnpikes" of old have largely changed from their 18th Century roles, many exhibit hints of their former charachter, namely, the old granite milepost markers.
	Expanding on the Turnpikes story, this journey offers a voyage along the centuries old "National Road" to Frederick, to search out many of the milestones between the two cities.
	A lovely arched tunnel entrance persists today to tell the tale of the days when Husbands were good, while keeping quiet regarding a possible connection seen on a 150 year old map.
	While typically roads appear where once fields or buildings existed, it does work in reverse as well,  With the assistance of old maps, we explore where roads once were, but are no more.
	From the land of big ambition and big resistance come these dream highways gone bust, complete with dead end offramps, blank signs, and lazy abutments.
	A complete Highway to Nowhere exists in West Baltimore, something of a Highway in miniature.  Fully built, the road was intended to actually have a destination.
	While never an ambitious Boulevard, sleepy little Kirby Lane once offered a cenvenient connection to the Liberty Turnpike for the few Baltimoreans who lived in its proximity during its prime.
	Destined to have every trace of it erased in the early plans, this former diagonal road still offers fragments of its former diagonal route through Northeast Baltimore.
	Well before Liberty Heights Avenue made its way along the Mondawmin Estate, the travellers along the Liberty Road made their journey along a highly disconnected path of Windsor Mill.
	While many Baltimoreans are familiar with "Old Harford Road Proper," there are a few traces of Harford Road that are far less travelled, and much more forgotten.
	Renamed "Star Lane" on a few maps, Old York Road tells little of the pre-turnpike days, and hides a lot, although vintage maps do reveal  some answers while encouraging more questions.
	In the early days of the automobile, there were still planners who  saw the advantage of reserving arteries strictly for pedestrian movement.  Today, many of these "paths" persist.
	The planned grid of Peabody Heights would seem to spell disaster for the old lazy lanes near Waverly in 1897.  However, modernization could not remove all vestiges of these quaint arteries,
	Having existed for over 100 years, it would not be until 2003 when a supermarket chain would spell the end for the majority of this breezy old estate roadway.
	A quick and unofficial guide to some of the more cryptic of Baltimore's Street names, and a crash phoenetic description of how most locals pronounce these unique streets.