First Good Roads Rally Led Iowa Toward Paved Paths
The 1883 Iowa City gathering sparked a push for road taxes and reforms as settlers tamed mud with planks and ditches. By 1920s Linn County financed a broad primary road system, paving highways 30 11 13 161 and 149 while building a statewide network under state funds and local bonds.
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Loyal Meek
Iowa
John Ely Briggs
Briggs
Iowa City
Linn
W. G. Haskell
Cedar Rapids
State Highway Commission
W. D. McTavish
Central City
pe-Linn
State Development Fund
Linn County
Iowas Dolliver Gear and many senators remembered
A reflective reminiscence recalls Iowa figures in Washington from Dolliver to Gear and later senators. It notes Allison’s advice shaping Dolliver’s career, the debates over tariffs, and the fates of Gear Dickinson Herring Murphy Gillette and others, with assessments of their influence and legacies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan P. Dolliver
Senate
Senator Gear
House
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Dolliver
McKinley
Washington
Allison
West Virginia
Clarkson
Iowa
Cyrenus Cole
Congress
Major Holmes
House of Representatives
Senator Allison
Jonathan
Mr. Dolliver
Cummins
Cole
Fort Dodge
Linn County
Robert G. Cousins
Cousins
Robert G. Ingersoll
Boyd
Estate University
P. Dolliver
Wright
John H. Gear
Gear
Des Moines
General Assembly
Burlington
Shaw
Albert B. Cummins
Daniel F. Steck
Smith W. Brookhart
Brookhart
Steck
Clyde L. Herring
Moines
Henry Watterson
Gover
Clyde Herring
Louis Murphy
United States Senate
Murphy
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Mt. Vernon
Portland Cement Company
Highway 149
William Behrens
Salt Lake City
Senator Kenyon
Salvation Army
Kenyon
John S. Duncan
Dickinson
L. J. Dickinson
Guy Gillette
Guy Mark Gillette
Gillette
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Liggett
3Rd Street
3Rd Avenue
North Western
Colorado
Yellowstone
National
California
Pacific Northwest
Black Hills
South Dakota
Worth Woods
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Upper Michigan
Chicago
New York
Boston
Eastern Seaboard
F. Winkrant
D. F
P. A
Chicago and North Western
First Ave
N. E
Chicago and North Western System
Fay
AX Montgomery Ward
Ward
Moneycan
Mr. Ward
Montgomery Ard
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