brick roads around Cleveland in 1906

"With the city of Cleveland as a center, and spreading out fan-like in all directions, is to be seen perhaps the most wonderful system of country roads in the world. Think of driving for miles and miles through the open country on hard, dry, clean brick pavements which are laid and kept in re pair quite as well as the pavements of the best avenues of the big cities! Cuyahoga county, of which Cleveland is the county town, has set the pace, and in the last three or four years has been doing pioneer work in the construction of roads which give satisfaction, particularly to the farmer, with his heavy wagon, who ordinarily has to plow through several feet of mud to reach the Christmas markets.