With the calendar ticking down toward 2018, I don’t have much space left to cover an anniversary I kept putting off.
US 63 was four-laned through Traer in 1967. Structures were far enough from the road that there were no demolitions, but two churches came pretty close. The above is from the planning files. There was a before-and-after photo pair in the 1967 construction summary taken from the same location (looking north from Taylor Park).
The new four-lane road ended at the foot of an old truss bridge over Wolf Creek that was not replaced until sometime in the 1970s. (That project either is not online yet or not correctly geocoded.)