{"id":12488,"date":"2020-11-11T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2020-11-10T23:39:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:39:48","slug":"iowas-1920-highway-system-plymouth-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/iowas-1920-highway-system-plymouth-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa&#8217;s 1920 Highway System: Plymouth County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/2020\/0717\/3_K22_wb.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 17, 2020:<\/strong> The loneliest intersection of 1920. IA 29 ended here; IA 27 went east and west.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Western Iowa had nearly all of the primary numbers, save for 28, in the 26-through-37 span. As far as I know, it just sort of happened. Three of those routes were predominantly in Plymouth County.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/1920ends\/ia27_1920.html\">IA 27<\/a> covered what&#8217;s now the westernmost part of cross-state IA 3 because the auto trails had enormous pull at the time. The Hawkeye Highway veered southwest from Le Mars to Sioux City, leaving a gap in the county. In Akron, 27 met IA 12 and both ended.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/1920ends\/ia29_1920.html\">IA 29<\/a> spent a lot of time getting out of Sioux City, but after that was all in Plymouth County, not touching any other town. This was the &#8220;Perry Creek road&#8221;, as it stayed close to the creek halfway into Liberty Township. It passes 2 miles east of the extinct map dot of Adaville, which today is only a church, and 2 miles east of the extinct map dot of Ruble, which today is an abandoned business building, an abandoned one-room schoolhouse, and one house, and is not to be confused with the town of Struble elsewhere in the county.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/1920ends\/ia30_1920.html\">IA 30<\/a> started with a lot more corners between Moville and Kingsley than IA 140 has today. Its endpoint could be considered &#8220;just outside&#8221; of Remsen at the time, but one could see the town from the intersection. But in 1919-20, there was a lot of flip-flopping as to whether 30&#8217;s north-south segment from Kingsley would be where 140&#8217;s is, or a mile west. Also, straightening the Hawkeye Highway to avoid downtown Remsen and Marcus appears to have been a last-minute change but I have no set date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IA 29&#8217;s endpoint in this group deserves a little more discussion. In every other route, numbers were extended, sometimes by great distances, redundantly along other roads so every endpoint was in a town. With 29, that wasn&#8217;t possible without taking a giant turn toward either Le Mars or Akron. Brunsville, 5 miles east, had &#8220;Gas and oils&#8221; and a blacksmith in 1912, according to\u00a0<em>Huebinger&#8217;s Automobile and\u00a0Good Road Atlas of Iowa<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17, 2020: The loneliest intersection of 1920. IA 29 ended here; IA 27 went east and west. Western Iowa had nearly all of the primary numbers, save for 28, in the 26-through-37 span. 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