(1) For decades, the term to macadamize meant to pave a road.(2) If such resolution declares only an intention to macadamize , the contract should not be let for both macadamizing and curbing the sidewalk.(3) Gap Creek pike, which leaves the Sevierville pike about six miles from Knoxville, is macadamized seven miles.(4) Following the route of the current day Country Road 42, this was a macadamized road for the use of which the grumbling traveller had to pay a toll during much of its early history.(5) Tarmac was originally marketed as tar-macadam, because it was a macadamized road incorporating a binder of tar.(6) During the winter of 1837-38 its condition was so intolerable that the State granted a sum of $40,000 to be expended in filling the holes and macadamizing the road.(7) In 1916, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee built macadamized roads connecting with the Government Pike, and the Pike was added to the ‘Dixie Highway’ system.(8) In 1890, Broadway between Union and Brown Streets was widened and macadamized , and two houses belonging to James Ingalls were moved out of the road.(9) By 1862, some parts of St. Charles Road were macadamized and three years later it had been built of rock for its length, leading to the ‘Rock Road’ title it still bears.(10) On macadamized roads, stage coaches and freight wagons could travel unimpeded by bogs or ruts.(11) Beginning in October 1893, Midland Township was exercised by a proposal to complete the work of macadamizing its remaining twenty-two miles of dirt roads by bonding for $75,000.(12) More delightful roads could not be desired; smooth, level, macadamized , devoid of stones and requiring little effort on the pedals.(13) Many have macadamized roads through them, and, indeed, are not gaps, but small valleys through the main chain.(14) Tarmacadam is created by spraying tar along a macadamized road to bind it together further and pressing the surface with a roller to drive the tar deep into the macadam.(15) From this time forward every year added a few miles to the macadamized roads of the county.
