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Quick Answer. The first major city in the United States to pave its streets was Newark, New Jersey, in 1870. Prior to this, asphalt pavement was only used for sidewalks and crosswalks in the United States. Washington, D.C., became the second U.S. city to add paved streets soon after Newark. Continue Reading.
The first bituminous mixtures produced in the United States were used for sidewalks, crosswalks, and even roads starting in the late 1860s. In 1870, a Belgian chemist named Edmund J. DeSmedt laid the first true asphalt pavement in this country, a sand mix in front of the City Hall in Newark, New Jersey. DeSmedtâs design was patterned after a natural asphalt pavement placed on a French highway in 1852.