Iowa's historic automobile roads
Subtitle: a national register study of pre-1948 arterial highways : prepared for primary road project NHS-61-4-(55) -- 19-70 Muscatine County, Iowa
By: by Marlin R. Ingalls, project architectural historian ; co-principal investigators Carl A. Merry and Stephen C. Lensink
Contributors: Merry, Carl A.; Lensink, Stephen C.; University of Iowa. Highway Archaeology Program; Iowa. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Location and Environment
Series: Project completion report -- vol. 32, no. 16; Project completion report (University of Iowa. Highway Archeology Program) -- vol. 32, no. 16.
Publisher: Highway Archaeology Program, University of Iowa
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Iowa City, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Roads; Rural roads; History
Other titles: National register study of pre-1948 arterial highways
Description: The historic roads study was developed as a result of findings reported in an archaeological report (Artz 1995a).  This study presented the results of the Phase II archaeological investigation of a cut-off highway section on U.S. 61 south of Muscatine, in Muscatine County.  As a result of that report an agreement was reached between the SHPO and the Iowa DOT outlining the current project.  This project's initial objectives were two fold.  The first was to locate two prospective study routes within the state containing abandoned or cut-off highway segments for analysis.  The second was to devise a method to identify, outline, and define the criteria for evaluation of the potential National Register eligibility of such cut-off highway segments.  One primary result of the project was to enable cut-off segments of Iowa highways and related historic resources to be consistently evaluated.  The criteria for evaluation were to involve only the route's engineered cross-sections between the right-of-way boundaries.  Only engineering elements, which include design, material acquisition, and the construction methods of the study highways, were to be evaluated.  Roadside architecture beyond the highway right-of-way was to be generally excluded from this study.
Notes: Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-262).

Submitted to the Office of Location and Environment, Iowa Department of Transportation.