Ancient Roman Road at Iowa?! - Buried at Dubuque 

Modern buildings pour concrete footers. To have limestone blocks is insane. Especially how flat on top and bottom they are. Makes you wonder if those stones go across the whole floor.

It’s old world concrete-geopolymer. Most of the local old “quarries” around the country are just where they removed the castles built over springs. The limestone for this geopolymer was quarried in Kansas City, New York, and Alabama. I’m guessing there are more giant abandoned old-world limestone mines but those are three I know of.

Would have been building on bedrock.

They built on top of preexisting structures.

Well that’s where we learned it hundreds of years ago. Those old timers were tuff artists. Stay safe.

Scottish Freemasonry? lol They invented almost everything

I think it matters which building. Not every building would have been flooded the same. Some entrances probably weren’t covered some were. When you take a place like this along the Mississippi River, we probably did build up around those houses and street levels, because it’s a known fact the Mississippi flooded middle America in 1812 when there was a massive earthquake on the new Madrid fault line which runs under and along the river, and in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s. The lower levels of those buildings and houses, always have stairs up to the entrance that cover the original. Also if they are going to add another floor to an existing structure, that might be some of the reason why some of the bottom floor or windows appear covered, they would need to build a stronger base around it to support the taller structure. So not always is it mudflood, but clearly these channels are onto something.

My thoughts too!

Have you seen I am Kairos? He found a huge cliff of melted bricks in San Francisco!

@@wesporter2176 I'll have to check it out, thanks.

Was it swirl marks you saw?

Yes! Many catholic "churches" in Clinton, Iowa have been torn down. Just to name a couple, St Mary's & St Patrick's, both beautiful red brick buildings...gone. The only HUGE remaining church that the citizens fought to keep is in the Lyons north end, St. Irenaeus, (pronounced saint "arnez") which is constructed of limestone blocks with double steeples. Completely unused & sitting there utterly deteriorating. During Christmas, their midnight mass was always so spectacular. No longer an active church, completely deserted. 😢 What exactly was this extraordinary building before being changed to a catholic church? There is also a huge old Masonic lodge in that same area no longer being used...that I know of.

Across the river in East Dubuque, Illinois are mounds which giants were removed. The Smithsonian is imbedded in Dubuque.

welcome to room 101!

Dalmatians? I’m lost

In the novel 1984, Room 101 was a torture chamber. ​@@DrewishBear

I agree. It’s just remarkable about how little we know about the past. What an amazing conspiracy.

Also those buildings were built with native limestone first from a quarry off of 22nd st. Then later from quarries a bit further west of town. It's the only area of the midwest with still intact lime kilns and the only area of Iowa with fine quality building limestone. Much limestone was also shipped to Chicago to build there. The dubuque pink brick was from brick kilns in dubuque using local clays you can't find outside the city. Once the kilns closed they filled in the source for the brick and over built the area. The reason you can't get that brick anymore. Lots of great 19th century history in dubuque. You show a road off of hill street with limestone block lining the edge. That block came from a cut across the street... in winter you can see that they quarried that bluff extensively. Simple matter to drag it across the street in place. Must have been some VIPs up that street to justify building that road.