The early bird got more than a worm first thing Friday.

People lined up outside of the Waterloo Region dump since 3:30 in the morning to get their own piece of history.

Officials were giving away 100 pieces of corduroy road.

The dump opened at 7:00 a.m. and by 7:27 a.m. every last piece of the wood from the 1800’s was claimed.

“It was a historic find that we found, with lots of interest,” said Kimberly  Moser, Manager of community relations for Waterloo Region.

“Twenty-seven minutes , all pieces gone.”

Some people showed up, just before 8 in the morning, with high hopes of taking home their own log of corduroy road but were disappointed.

Woodwork Greg Dent was hoping to get a piece to up-cycle it into a miniature corduroy road.

“It’s kind of disappointing,” he said. “ I was hoping to get a piece and make something… maybe donate in to the City of Waterloo.”

Officials say it was a very civilized distribution of the road pieces.