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Apr
15
Photos by the numbers: 165 and 166
July 10, 2008: Norfolk, Virginia. Look at the middle shield. It is for “US 166,” which exists half a continent away. This is US 13’s first/last stoplight on this side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
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Apr
15
Maquoketa Caves reopen
KWWL and the Quad-City Times have stories. Until 2003, the state park was the destination of IA 428, the highest signed non-900 designation in the Iowa highway system.
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Apr
14
Titanic centennial
The last 1912 photo of the Titanic, taken by Father Frank Browne My first encounters with the story of the Titanic were in Robert Ballard’s book Exploring the Titanic in fifth grade and the December 1985 and December 1986 issues … Continue reading
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Apr
14
Photos by the numbers: 164
April 9, 2004: Once US 30 was expanded to four lanes around Colo, an exit tab was added to this sign. The interchange was constructed along with the realigned 30 in the 1960s but tapered back to two on either … Continue reading
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Apr
13
Photos by the numbers: 163
May 31, 2005: Business 163 passes a stub of old IA 163 to meet the west end of the Pella bypass.
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Apr
12
Photos by the numbers: 162
September 13, 2011: Mile markers on wooden posts are rare in Iowa, but here’s one, in Appanoose County, at what was an end of IA 142. Just to the south is a short segment of old IA 2, which separated … Continue reading
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Apr
11
Photos by the numbers: 161
December 28, 2001: AR 161 at I-40 just east of I-30. It is one of the pre-freeway segments of US 67 in central Arkansas.
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Apr
10
945* (Update: Still 946)
Clip from the first state highway map (1919) When the Iowa highway system was created in 1920, Mount Sterling was important enough that it (or the Missouri border just south) was the south end of IA 11. That only lasted … Continue reading
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Apr
10
Photos by the numbers: 160
July 23, 2008: West end of IA 160 in Ankeny. The entire route has been inside Ankeny’s city limits nearly since creation. It was originally a connector between IA 60 and US 69, but has moved off that original piece.
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Apr
09
A Civil War clarification
In commemoration of the 105th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862), in which many Iowa soldiers died, historian Timothy Walch corrects a statement that many people, including myself, had believed to be true. It’s reprinted here for … Continue reading
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