The Iowa State Daily is writing about Ames’ sesquicentennial (150th anniversary). Last week, there was a piece about the Iowa Department of Transportation, which started out as part of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The Iowa DOT remains unique today because it is a major state agency not located in the state capital, and I don’t know if there are any other cases of that in the country.
July 1 was the 40th anniversary of the Iowa DOT after 70 years as the Iowa Highway Commission.