Highway Construction
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 set off the biggest highway building boom in the nation's and Iowa's history. Iowa's first segment of interstate highway, I-35/I-80 at the southwest edge of Des Moines, was opened in 1958.
Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Transportation
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