{"id":2774,"date":"2018-03-22T08:54:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T08:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2018-03-21T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:55:46","slug":"brief-history-of-the-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/brief-history-of-the-driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief History of the Driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first known use of word driveway<\/em> was in 1871.<\/h4>\n

Most houses built before 1850 were reached via dirt paths.\u00a0These paths were direct rather than meandering, and not very wide, perhaps 3′ at most. According to \u201cThis Old House\u201d<\/a>\u00a0these access ways were created for people, not for carriages or certainly vehicles that would eventually become popular in the early part of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

The word “driveway” began to be used around 1871 and was originally a dirt path that horse or carriages used to reach the front of a home. Only in modern times, when everyone owned a car, did the need arise for a place to store it, so the driveway became a place to “park your car.” With the age of motorized vehicles, post 1900, actual driveways and back alley access ways became commonplace.<\/p>\n

During the second half of the 19th century, creative driveways began to show up on nicer homes. Semi-circular drives and curving walks, along with the addition of curbing\u2014trimmed edges of cobblestone<\/a>,<\/strong> cut stone, brick, shells, or clay tile began to make an appearance. Gravel was the preferred surfacing material, although brick, stone and flagstone walks became more prominent and sometimes only a two wheel concrete ribbon down a grass or dirt path.<\/p>\n

Consumers have many design and paving material options, \u00a0ranging from concrete, asphalt,\u00a0gravel, and decomposed granite, to more creative and long lasting materials such as brick,\u00a0natural stone pavers, and our favorite; cobblestone! \u00a0Today’s driveways have come a very long way – including stepping back in time to recreate the old world feel with original historic materials with reclaimed Historic European Cobblestone<\/a> – a\u00a0piece of history beneath both your vehicle and<\/em> feet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “driveway” was originally a dirt path that you drove on (originally for carriages) to reach the front of a home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[21,16,18],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historiceuropeancobblestone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}