Horse-drawn Dirt Road Grader
Time Frame: 1900
Most of Iowa's roads were maintained by township trustees who graded ditches and did some dragging of the roadway bed to form a primitive grade. ca. 1900.
Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Transportation
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