Here's a fellow standing on a PILE of oystershell at Pearsons Packinghouse....probably about 1895. You could get a dozen big Chesapeake or Chincoteague "Arsters" for about a penny apiece....it was "po boy" food...And the shells would often be crushed for a permeable paving material. Long Island and New England towns were noted for this, and as a material its getting new attention
Also around 1895....This is a group of ladies standing in front of the Patterson Park Observatory. The Park was donated as a walking-out area by the Pstterson Patriarch in 1821. His Daughter was the richest Heiress in the US a decade earlier, when she married Jerome Bonaparte.