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2. The Best Landscape Edging Options for Your Lawn and Garden - AOL

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   The landscape edging comes in slate gray and brown, in addition to the black that’s shown, and in multiple heights. Each pack comes with five pieces that are 39 inches long and 1.6 millimeters ...

3. Pavers (flooring) - Wikipedia

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   Stone pavers are made of many materials including limestone, bluestone, basalt (such as that from The Palisades used in New York City), sandstone and granite. [ 19 ] Travertine is a durable, low-porous stone that stays cool in direct sunlight, making it a popular choice for pool-sides, patios, walkways and outdoor entertainment areas.

4. Boundary marker - Wikipedia

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   A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in direction of a boundary. [1] There are several other types of named border markers, known as boundary trees, [2] [3] pillars, monuments, obelisks, and ...

5. Road surface - Wikipedia

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   Size of stones was central to McAdam's road building theory. The lower 200-millimetre (7.9 in) road thickness was restricted to stones no larger than 75 millimetres (3.0 in). Modern tarmac was patented by British civil engineer Edgar Purnell Hooley, who noticed that spilled tar on the roadway kept the dust down and created a smooth surface. [12]

6. Boundary markers of the original District of Columbia

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   Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...

7. Lewis (lifting appliance) - Wikipedia

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   Lifting the stone a small distance from the ground before hoisting is the best way to test a lewis. Any sign of looseness or damage should be corrected by adjusting the lewis hole or packing the lewis with metal shims. To bed a stone using a lewis, the stone is placed on dunnage laid flat with enough clearance for a mortar bed to be placed ...