Rules of the Road: Highway Safety
Early autos collide
Rolled car
Interstate Highway Construction
Highway Construction
Advertisements on Bridge, ca. 1925
Eureka Bridge Construction on the Lincoln Highway (2 of 4)
Competing Routes to Omaha, ca. 1920
Early State Border Marker U.S. Highway 65
Iowa's Roads
Highway Construction
Time Frame: 1956
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 set off the biggest highway building boom in the nation's and Iowa's history. Iowa's first segment of interstate highway, I-35/I-80 at the southwest edge of Des Moines, was opened in 1958.
Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Transportation
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